About Nancy
Nancy Brighton helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, and major life changes. She brings a steady presence and decades of experience to sessions. Nancy believes people hold the key parts of their own story and can build on strengths they already have.
She uses straightforward talk and practical skills to help clients manage symptoms and make choices that fit their values. Sessions focus on identifying immediate challenges and trying small changes that can make daily life easier.
How Nancy works
Nancy listens closely, offers perspective, and coaches people through steps they feel ready to take. Her background includes many years working in clinical settings and community care in Florida. Nancy holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - and has practiced for 53 years.
That long experience shapes a calm, patient approach to problem solving. In therapy she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, and Client-Centered principles. Those approaches give a mix of skills training, emotional processing, and attention to relationships and values.
People often come with concerns such as grief, parenting stress, addiction, ADHD, depression, bipolar mood issues, or struggles with intimacy and self-esteem. Nancy works with each person at their own pace, helping them build coping tools and clearer goals for moving forward.
Nancy lists 20 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Nancy works with
The areas below are the ones Nancy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 53 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and practice small actions that align with those values. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it often helps with depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness and can help with intense emotions and relationship difficulties.Nancy approaches treatment as a collaboration. She will listen to your concerns, discuss different methods, and work with you to choose the approaches that fit your needs and goals. Adjustments happen over time so the plan stays practical and relevant to real life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video visits allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break during a busy day. Live chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between scheduled meetings. These formats make therapy more flexible for people with different schedules and needs.
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