About Nancy
Nancy Brighton is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma or difficult life changes. She draws on decades of experience to support people through grief, addiction challenges, parenting strain, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. Her tone is straightforward and compassionate.
She views each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking.
Background and approach
Nancy encourages small, steady changes rather than sudden overhaul. Her approach blends talk and skill-building. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-oriented strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and increase valued action.
She also attends to how early attachments can shape current relationships. Nancy offers calm, steady support during big transitions. This includes help with career stress, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, and sexuality-related concerns.
She also addresses issues like body image, sleep problems, anger, and intimacy-related worries. With more than five decades of clinical experience, Nancy practices in Florida as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker. She aims to make sessions practical, readable, and focused on the changes a person wants to make.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and then choose steps that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce distress, which is helpful for worry, mood struggles, and sleep issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from early relationships and how those patterns affect current connections, which can help with intimacy and communication concerns.Finding the right approach is something the therapist and client figure out together. Nancy will listen to goals and try methods that fit a person’s needs and preferences. That collaborative process may include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and several ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face work when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support people who prefer writing or who need brief, ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work across changes in schedule or location.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 53 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English