About Nancy
Nancy O'Neil is a licensed clinical social worker with 29 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing addictions, relationship struggles, grief, and depression. Nancy emphasizes practical steps and steady support so people can move toward feeling better in day-to-day life.
She approaches each person as the expert on their own story and looks for existing strengths to build on. In sessions she helps people name what is most stressful and then chooses simple, doable strategies to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on clear goals and small changes that add up over time. Nancy has substantial experience with addiction-related concerns, including drug and alcohol issues, and helps people develop healthier coping patterns. She also assists those facing major life losses, end-of-life matters, and caregiver stress.
Communication problems, codependency, and isolation are common topics she addresses. Her work includes helping people recover from relationship ruptures such as infidelity, divorce, and separation. First responder issues, guilt and shame, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters are also within her focus.
Nancy blends practical tools with steady emotional support to help people take the next right step. Sessions are offered in English and provided from her practice in California. Nancy supports people who want a straightforward, strengths-based path through anxiety, grief, addiction, or depression.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to address anxiety, stress, and addiction in straightforward ways. One approach focuses on skills training - teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior strategies to manage anxiety and cravings. These are short, practical exercises you can practice between sessions to reduce symptoms and increase confidence.A second approach centers on grief and loss work - creating space to tell your story, name difficult feelings, and find ways to remember while moving forward. This often involves paced processing and building routines that support daily functioning during hard transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be decided together. The therapist listens to your goals, reviews what has helped before, and recommends techniques that match your needs and preferences. This collaborative process lets the plan be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions or live chat are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching and brief reflections between sessions. These options help people stay consistent with care while balancing work, caregiving, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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