About Nancy
Nancy McGraw is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with over 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and major life changes. Her work centers on practical steps that make daily life more manageable.
She typically begins by listening closely to each person's story. That helps her and the client agree on small, achievable goals. Sessions often include talking through coping skills and practicing ways to manage overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
Nancy draws from client-centered methods that keep the person's priorities at the center of care. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Solution-focused techniques help clients notice what is already working and build on those successes.
Her background includes long-term work with caregivers, veterans, and people facing chronic illness or end-of-life concerns. She also supports those coping with postpartum depression, panic attacks, or feelings of isolation. Her experience gives her a practical sense of how life roles and health issues affect mood and stress.
In sessions she aims to be direct and compassionate. Conversations move at a steady pace and focus on skills that can be used between meetings. The goal is to help people regain a sense of control, restore energy for everyday tasks, and find clearer direction going forward.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy places the person's needs and preferences at the heart of the work. It involves open listening, validating the client's experience, and helping them set goals that matter. This approach can help when someone feels overwhelmed, unheard, or unsure about next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In short sessions a person and therapist identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical ways to test and change them. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, panic, low mood, and stress management.
Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small changes that already exist and builds on them. Sessions are goal-directed and often result in concrete action steps clients can use right away. This is useful for people who want focused work on specific problems or transitions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Nancy will help figure out what fits based on a person's goals, needs, and preferences. She treats it as a team effort and adjusts methods as progress is made.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes scheduling more flexible. Video lets people see facial cues; phone calls work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can be a quicker check-in or a way to keep momentum between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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