About Nancy
Nancy Dano is a licensed mental health counselor with 10 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and parenting and eating struggles. Nancy aims to build a calm, steady relationship that feels safe to talk in and move at each person’s pace.
She uses straightforward methods that people can use between sessions. Nancy draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
How Nancy works
She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and mindfulness practices to help slow down overwhelming reactions. Nancy works with issues around attachment, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and life changes like illness or blended family dynamics.
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking rather than long explanations. Her background includes both inpatient and outpatient settings, which shaped her focus on practical coping skills. Nancy supports people who want coaching-style help as well as clinical work.
She keeps goals simple and measurable so progress is easier to see. People can expect a calm, collaborative approach that blends evidence-informed tools with empathic listening. Nancy explains options clearly, checks in on progress, and adjusts plans as needs change.
Nancy lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that help online
Nancy often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. CBT is practical and goal oriented, so it translates well to digital sessions. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills; these skills can be practiced between sessions and tracked over time. Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at recurring relationship patterns and helps people try different ways of connecting.Nancy approaches treatment as a joint process. She talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on what works and what doesn’t. That collaborative approach helps tailor therapy whether someone wants coaching, symptom-focused work, or a mixture of both.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session and face-to-face interaction. Phone works well when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or people who write better than they speak. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and keep continuity when schedules change.
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