About Nancy
Nancy Marts is a licensed clinical social worker with 45 years of experience. She began working in 1976 with juvenile programs and later moved into hospital and hospice settings. Her long career includes inpatient, intensive outpatient, and general outpatient psychiatric social work.
Nancy practices from North Carolina and offers services in English. She approaches clients as people facing real problems, not just diagnoses. She helps people who feel stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed by change.
Background and approach
She listens first, then works with each person to find practical steps forward. Nancy has worked with life transitions many times. Examples include coping with medical disability, grieving loss, and rethinking identity after major change.
She uses straightforward strategies to improve coping and rebuild a sense of purpose. Her methods draw on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior tools, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Those approaches are used to build skills for managing stress, anxiety, mood changes, sleep trouble, and relationship strain.
Sessions focus on small, doable changes and on teaching tools people can use between meetings. Nancy emphasizes collaboration - she and the client set goals and try practical steps together. Her style is calm, experienced, and down-to-earth.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered work is about listening and following the person's lead. It helps people feel heard while they sort out priorities and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect mood and behavior and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, focuses on skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication to handle intense feelings.Choosing the right approach is a joint effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try approaches and adjust what they do based on what works in real life.
Online sessions can be offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people read facial expressions and do longer conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 45 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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