About Nancy
Nancy Montes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of practice in California. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or big life changes. Her style is respectful and direct, focused on helping people gain clarity and better daily coping skills.
She begins by listening closely to what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped around the client’s needs so conversations stay practical and relevant.
Background and approach
Nancy mixes talking, reflection, and simple skill-building so people can try things between sessions. Her background includes a range of therapeutic approaches that guide how she works. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s values and goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break down unhelpful thinking and build manageable habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports deeper work around relationships and attachment. Nancy has worked across many life stages and concerns, including caregiver stress, body image, postpartum depression, social anxiety, and grief.
She also addresses multicultural concerns and issues that come with aging or caregiving. Her years of experience mean she brings practical strategies alongside calm, steady support. People who prefer clear, compassionate guidance tend to fit well with her approach.
She encourages small, concrete steps toward stronger routines and healthier responses to stress. The work is collaborative and paced to the client’s comfort level.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities, helping people feel heard and understood while they set their own goals. This approach is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions because it keeps the work grounded in what matters most to the individual.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and patterns into small steps that can be practiced between sessions. It is practical for managing stress, anxiety, depressive thinking, and many daily challenges by teaching clear techniques for change.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people see how emotions shape relationships and attachment. It is helpful when anxiety or depression connects to how someone relates to partners or close others, and it supports changing interaction patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Nancy will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on symptoms, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as needed so the process stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and emotional work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat works well for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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