About Nancy
Nancy Ferguson is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who brings 10 years of hands-on experience to her work in North Carolina. She focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier and more connected in their relationships and daily life.
Nancy uses client-centered conversations to help people feel heard while introducing tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when they are useful. She guides clients through stress, anxiety, depression, and mood challenges in plain, direct language.
How Nancy works
Sessions also address addictions, grief, and trauma-related concerns. Relationship and intimacy issues are a regular focus. Nancy helps people sort through communication struggles, family conflict, and the emotional fallout from separation or divorce.
She also supports those working on self-esteem, career stress, and caregiving strain. Her work includes attention to identity and belonging, including LGBT concerns and multicultural perspectives. She also works with people facing ADHD, attachment challenges, and bereavement.
Nancy draws on Jungian ideas to explore personal meaning when that fits a person's goals. Clients can expect a collaborative process with clear goals and practical homework when helpful. Nancy combines listening with specific strategies, aiming to make progress that feels realistic and sustainable.
Nancy lists 11 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting. It helps people feel understood and clarifies their goals so sessions stay practical and relevant to everyday life.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches clear skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many mood-related concerns by offering homework and step-by-step practice.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds emotion regulation and skill-based tools for coping with intense feelings and improving communication. It can help with anger, relationship conflict, and managing impulses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life while still using the approaches described above.
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