About Nancy
Nancy Brighton is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with decades of experience supporting people facing stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical help for relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and the everyday challenges that follow major life changes. Nancy believes people already carry strengths they can use to move forward and offers steady guidance to put those strengths into action.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational but focused on skills and choices that make daily life easier. Nancy uses a mix of approaches to match each situation. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to address troubling thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help people notice what matters most and take small steps in that direction. Over a long career she has worked with concerns such as ADHD, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness, attachment questions, and communication or control problems.
Nancy aims to create a calm, practical space for problem solving. She helps people build routines, practice new skills, and test changes between sessions. The goal is steady progress that fits each person's life and pace.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take small, values-driven steps forward. It often suits anxiety, stress, and life transitions where shifting behavior matters more than changing every thought. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It can be useful for reducing anxiety, improving sleep, and changing patterns that cause daily distress.Nancy treats choosing the right approach as a collaborative step. She will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online sessions offer flexibility with formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and texting are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different ways of connecting until they find what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 53 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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