About Nancy
Nancy Manly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 21 years of clinical work. She offers calm, steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and life transitions. Her style is warm and straightforward and she focuses on practical changes that help people feel better in day-to-day life.
She draws on several well-known therapy approaches to build a plan that fits each person's needs. Sessions include concrete strategies for coping, managing thoughts and emotions, and setting healthier boundaries.
How Nancy works
Nancy aims to help people build skills they can use outside of sessions so progress lasts. Her background includes long experience supporting people through chronic illness, caregiving strain, end-of-life concerns, and substance and behavioral addictions. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, sleep and eating struggles, anger, and self-esteem challenges.
These areas are woven into treatment plans alongside work on attachment, abandonment, and communication patterns. Nancy describes her clinical manner as compassionate, honest, and gentle. She centers the person in session and guides change with respect for each individual’s pace and strengths.
Expect focused conversation, practical tools, and reflective work aimed at clearer goals. Therapy combines talk and skill-building drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered methods. Sessions may include coaching elements, relaxation and mindfulness practices, and problem-solving tailored to current life demands.
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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on skill and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take action toward what matters. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions when values and action matter more than symptom control. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches clear, practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and many stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions are guided by the client’s pace and strengths, and approaches may be combined as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and visual connection, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life circumstances.
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