About Nancy
Nancy Benner is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. She offers calm, practical support for people facing trauma, addiction, eating concerns, and major life changes. Nancy meets people where they are and focuses on what is most pressing for each person.
Her style is straightforward and person-focused. She listens first, then helps clients set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions mix talking, skills practice, and breathing or mindfulness exercises when those tools help. Nancy uses a few well-known approaches to guide work in the room. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) supplies concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s own goals and timing. For relationship concerns she applies elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict.
Clients who want practical tools will find concrete strategies for coping, anger management, and boosting self-esteem. Nancy also supports people dealing with complex diagnoses and layered problems by breaking issues into manageable steps. Based in Oregon, she holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged through the site’s matching and scheduling process.
How Nancy’s approaches work online
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s own goals and timing. In this approach the therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps people choose their next steps. It is helpful for people who want an empathetic space to sort things out.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying new behaviors, and using short exercises between sessions to track progress. This method is often useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, provides clear tools for managing strong emotions and handling crises. In online sessions clients learn skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships through repeated practice and coaching.
Nancy treats the choice of method as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about their goals and try different tools to see what fits best. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills training, reflective conversation, or a mix of both.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, between-session coaching, and shorter updates that fit busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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