About Nancy
Nancy Schulz is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those struggling with relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Nancy encourages clients to build on their own strengths and take small steps toward change.
She approaches therapy as a collaborative process. Nancy listens to each person's story and works with them to set practical goals. Sessions focus on developing coping skills, improving communication, and restoring confidence so people can feel more capable in daily life.
Background and approach
Over her 18 years of experience she has helped people face worry, guilt, shame, and life transitions. She draws on evidence-based techniques and tailors them to each person’s needs. The work often includes learning new ways to handle intense feelings and practicing different responses in real situations.
Nancy also addresses deeper issues that keep people stuck, like patterns of self-criticism or difficulty forgiving oneself or others. She helps clients explore life purpose and self-love while balancing practical steps for improvement. Expect direct, compassionate support and clear suggestions you can try between sessions.
Her style is warm and empowering. Nancy believes you are the expert on your life and aims to make therapy a place where decisions are made together. She helps people take manageable actions toward a more satisfying, less stressful life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Nancy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One approach emphasizes teaching practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress, such as breathing techniques, activity planning, and short behavioral experiments to test worries. These tools help reduce immediate overwhelm and improve daily functioning.Another approach targets negative self-beliefs and relationship habits by identifying recurring thoughts and practicing different responses. This work helps with self-esteem, guilt, shame, and repairing communication patterns in relationships. It often includes role-play and homework to try new behaviors between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and together choose or adjust methods that feel most helpful. This is a collaborative exploration rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between appointments, or when messaging fits a busy schedule. These options make it easier to fit regular work on anxiety and stress into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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