About Nancy
Nancy Buchanan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Washington. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, self-esteem, and depression. Nancy aims to make the first step feel doable and acknowledges the courage it takes to begin therapy.
Nancy believes people know their own stories and brings a respectful, strengths-based stance to sessions. She helps clients notice skills they already have and use them to face difficult feelings.
How Nancy works
Conversations are guided but down-to-earth, with a focus on practical next steps that fit each person's life. With 29 years of professional experience, Nancy has seen a wide range of concerns. She has worked with issues connected to abandonment, aging and geriatric matters, cancer, communication problems, drug and alcohol addiction, and family of origin challenges.
Nancy also addresses forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia. Sessions aim to be straightforward and readable even when the topics are heavy. Nancy listens for patterns that get in the way and helps people try small, manageable changes.
She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes. Nancy offers a calm, patient presence and focuses on what a client wants to change. She works collaboratively to set goals and track steps forward.
Her long experience means she can adapt to different needs while keeping the work practical and humane.
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
- Grief
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 29 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on helping people make clear, practical changes. One common approach involves identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and testing new ways of reacting; this helps with anxiety, low mood, and stress by breaking cycles that keep problems going. Another approach centers on building on a person's strengths and past successes to boost confidence and self-esteem; this can help when grief, shame, or isolation make progress feel impossible.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to a client's goals, worries, and daily routines and then suggests methods that fit. Together they try strategies, review what works, and adjust plans over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility. Video lets people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep continuity and fit therapy into a busy life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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