About Nan
Nan Riekert is a licensed clinical social worker in Kentucky with 39 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, parenting challenges, and anger. Nan aims to make starting therapy easier by offering a calm, direct presence in sessions.
Her style is straightforward and grounded. She prioritizes an open space where clients can speak without fear of judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what is happening now and on small steps toward change. Nan uses practical techniques drawn from evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people cope with strong emotions and difficult situations. She helps clients identify patterns, manage intense reactions, and find ways to repair strained relationships.
Sessions include talking, problem-solving, and learning new ways to respond to stress. She has nearly four decades of experience across community and clinical settings. That background helps her tailor support to each person’s needs and life circumstances.
Her approach is patient-centered and collaborative. Nan welcomes people who are ready to take steps toward a more manageable and satisfying life. She works with clients at a pace that suits them and focuses on realistic goals.
If you are considering therapy, she offers clear guidance on next steps and what to expect.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Nan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work in sessions. One common approach she draws on focuses on processing trauma and abuse by helping people name what happened, understand reactions, and build safer ways to cope. This approach helps with intrusive memories, strong emotions, and learning new responses to past harms.Another approach she uses targets grief and loss by helping clients sit with painful feelings, create meaning after loss, and find manageable ways to remember and move forward. This work can include practical strategies for daily routines and moments when emotions are hardest.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to identify which methods match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they check progress and adjust the plan if something is not helping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or need less bandwidth, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life while still getting structured support from a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Anger management
- Parenting issues
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English