About Nancy
Nancy Truett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee. She brings 23 years of experience in counseling, clinical mental health, and substance use treatment. Her background includes agency work, independent practice, and college-based counseling roles.
Nancy draws on a mix of practical techniques and creative approaches in sessions. Nancy earned a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee in Educational Psychology with a focus on Community and Mental Health Counseling, and a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina.
Background and approach
She also works as a director of counseling services at a community college and is pursuing doctoral studies in adult learning and educational research. Her clinical interests include anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns. She also focuses on issues such as codependency, commitment and control problems, eating and food-related issues, and family-of-origin concerns.
Nancy often integrates arts-based methods alongside talk therapy when it is helpful. In sessions she uses client-centered methods that put the person’s experience first, cognitive behavioral tools for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior, and EMDR for trauma-related processing. Motivational interviewing and narrative therapy also inform her work when exploring change and personal stories.
People who prefer a collaborative, down-to-earth approach tend to fit well with her style. She aims to create a clear plan with practical steps. Sessions are offered in English and available through online formats.
How Nancy’s approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and building on what matters most to the person. In an online session this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects feelings, and helps name priorities for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems down into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns; it works well for anxiety, low mood, and stress when clients want clear exercises and plans. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories; when appropriate, parts of EMDR can be adapted to remote sessions to work on trauma-related symptoms. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match your goals, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to focus on skills training, narrative work about personal stories, or trauma processing. Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and work with exercises together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send progress notes, brief updates, or work through thoughts between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue consistent work on anxiety and related concerns.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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