About Nancy
Nancy Cechvala is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or big life changes. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy practical and doable for everyday life.
She keeps sessions centered on the person in front of her, listening first and then building steps that fit each situation. Nancy uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to break cycles of worry and low mood.
Background and approach
She also draws on emotion-focused work to help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. Clients often come for help with trauma, relationship strain, parenting concerns, career stress, or managing symptoms of depression and bipolar disorder. She also supports people dealing with sleep and eating struggles, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Nancy pays attention to overlapping issues such as autism traits, caregiver stress, or blended family dynamics when they affect daily functioning. Her practice offers a mix of short-term problem solving and longer-term work, depending on what the person wants. Sessions aim to build clear tools - thought work, behavioral experiments, and mindfulness practices - that can be used between appointments.
The goal is steady progress, not quick fixes. Nancy provides services in English from Wisconsin and does not accept international clients. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How Nancy’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, so sessions begin with the client’s concerns and move at their pace. This helps when anxiety or trauma make it hard to know what to tackle first. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together and teaches practical exercises to reduce worry and improve sleep and mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and change patterns in close relationships by naming emotions and trying new ways of responding.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nancy will talk with each client about goals and preferences and then recommend methods that fit those aims. The plan can change over time as progress is made or needs shift, and the therapist and client make those decisions together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, sharing resources, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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