About Nancy
Nancy Van Aman is a Florida-licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, build self-esteem, and navigate major life changes. She offers a straightforward, supportive style for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
Her work centers on practical steps. She helps people sort through grief and loss, tackle panic and social anxiety, and handle the strain of caregiver roles. She also supports those dealing with guilt, codependency, relationship communication problems, and the challenges that come with pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum periods.
Background and approach
Nancy blends several approaches to match a person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She applies mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus.
She also brings elements of motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to help people set clear goals and take manageable steps forward. Therapy with Nancy is collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and builds on existing strengths.
Sessions aim to be realistic and usable, with homework or small experiments when that fits the client. Her long experience includes coaching for professionals and support for women's issues, midlife transitions, and relationship separations. She works by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging, all from her Florida base.
Sessions are conducted in English.
Approaches that translate well to online work
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety or low mood. It often uses brief exercises and homework that fit well into video or text check-ins. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process traumatic memories by pairing guided attention with safe recall; parts of this approach can be adapted for video sessions when appropriate.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals, preferences, and past strategies, then suggest methods to try. Goals and techniques are revisited so the plan can change if something is not working for the person.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people juggling busy lives. Video calls let someone see facial cues and do deeper work. Phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, immediate coaching, or keeping momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, or caregiving commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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