About Nancy
Nancy Tracy is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people through life transitions, relationship struggles, and questions about identity. Nancy aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can speak openly and get practical support.
She uses clear, straightforward methods to address issues like grief, self-esteem, and coping with major changes. Many of the concerns she helps with include LGBT matters, communication problems, commitment worries, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care.
How Nancy works
She also offers support around body image, codependency, and recovery from separation. Nancy draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to shape sessions. Those methods are used to help people notice patterns, try new responses, and reconnect with their values.
Sessions tend to include both listening and hands-on exercises clients can use between meetings. Her background includes long experience with first responder issues, aging and geriatric concerns, gender dysphoria, and topics related to HIV and AIDS. She also addresses less common areas like BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture with a nonjudgmental stance.
The overall aim is steady support and practical tools. Nancy offers a collaborative style that encourages goal-setting and real-world practice. She helps people build skills for clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and greater self-understanding.
Nancy lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values-based action so someone can move toward what matters despite discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers clear strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and problem-solving in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nancy will discuss options and help determine which methods match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That choice is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into a busy life. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can be useful for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These formats increase flexibility for scheduling and let people keep momentum between meetings.
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