About Nancy
Nancy Elliot is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 30 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical steps that bring relief and better day-to-day functioning.
She uses straightforward methods to tackle worry and low mood. Sessions often focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and setting concrete goals.
Background and approach
Nancy also supports people facing relationship difficulties, addiction concerns, caregiving stress, and career or role transitions. Nancy blends several therapy approaches to match each client's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts.
Mindfulness and acceptance-based tools help people stay grounded when emotions feel intense. In the room she attends to past wounds and current patterns that keep problems repeating. Work might include practicing new ways to talk with others, setting boundaries, or rebuilding self-esteem after loss or betrayal.
She also helps people manage anger, compassion fatigue, and the lasting effects of trauma and abuse. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances empathy with clear, achievable steps. Nancy often pairs supportive listening with practical coaching so people leave sessions with something to try.
Her aim is to turn moments of crisis into opportunities for lasting change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting tough feelings while committing to actions that match personal values; it helps when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of living fully. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns that fuel worry or low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase emotional balance during stressful moments.Nancy treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan so it fits the client’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when a fuller conversation is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching between sessions, or support for people who do better with written communication. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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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
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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