About Nancy
Nancy Cortez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. Nancy speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first steps toward help feel doable for busy people.
She brings five years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on building on each person's strengths.
How Nancy works
She believes clients are the experts on their own lives and emphasizes practical steps rather than labels. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused with time to talk through what feels most urgent. Nancy uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client's lead and create a warm space to be heard.
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected to find small changes that make daily life easier. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set concrete, short-term goals and track progress between meetings. Her approach attends to multicultural concerns and seasonally related mood changes such as Seasonal Affective Disorder.
She also supports people coping with self-harm thoughts by building safety plans and coping strategies. Therapy sessions are offered through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People who choose Nancy can expect straightforward, practical work.
She helps clients set achievable goals and checks progress regularly. If someone wants to begin, they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
Nancy lists 3 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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so the person can make sense of their experience and identify what matters most to them. This approach helps when someone needs space to be heard and develop their own solutions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into manageable steps, teaches coping skills, and helps people try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and patterns that repeat over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick strategies that fit a person's life and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation; phone works well when internet is limited; chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins or brief reflections between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain steady progress.
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