About Nancy
Nancy Bodnar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience based in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Nancy helps clients rebuild confidence and find more satisfying connections in their lives.
Nancy uses straightforward, person-focused care. She listens first and helps people set practical goals. Sessions often include problem-solving, noticing thought patterns, and practicing new ways of relating to others.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in independent practice and outpatient hospital settings. She earned a Master of Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work in 2002 and holds New Jersey LCSW credentials. Her experience includes work with trauma, grief, mood disorders, and issues tied to sexual orientation and cultural diversity.
Nancy integrates several approaches to meet individual needs. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools and psychodynamic thinking. She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused strategies when appropriate.
People reach out to Nancy for many concerns beyond anxiety and mood issues. She supports those coping with life changes, parenting stress, addiction-related problems, family or attachment struggles, and feelings of isolation. The focus is practical change and increased resilience.
Sessions are collaborative. Nancy works with each person to tailor methods and goals. She aims to help people gain clearer perspective and build skills they can use between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy centers on the person and their priorities. In practice this means sessions start with listening to what matters most to the client and shaping goals around those concerns. It helps when someone needs a compassionate space to talk through relationship, identity, or grief issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions often include straightforward exercises and practice tasks to change thinking patterns and reduce anxiety or mood symptoms. This approach can be useful for stress, panic, and repetitive negative thinking.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can shift over time as progress is made or new issues come up.
Online formats offer flexibility for how therapy happens. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send brief updates or work through steps between scheduled sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care across different settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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