About Nancy
Nancy Montes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of experience practicing in California. She describes her work as practical and grounded, helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, grief, or life changes. Her approach centers on listening closely and shaping therapy around each person’s needs.
Over two decades Nancy has worked with people from diverse backgrounds. She has assisted individuals facing depression, stress, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and social anxiety.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with post-traumatic stress, postpartum depression, and the challenges that come with aging or caregiving. In sessions she combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices. She uses emotionally-focused ideas to help people improve relationships and Jungian perspectives to explore personal meaning when that fits.
The focus is on clear, doable steps and on understanding the emotions behind behaviors. Nancy adapts the pace and techniques to match what each person needs. She offers straightforward skills for managing panic or low mood, and deeper exploratory work when someone wants to examine long-standing patterns.
Therapy plans are shaped together during conversation. People often come for help with communication problems, family conflict, isolation or loneliness, body image, and young adult issues. Nancy aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where clients can build practical coping strategies and greater self-compassion.
How Nancy’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding together. It helps when someone needs a calm, accepting space to talk and make sense of feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nancy will discuss goals, preferences, and how someone responds to different techniques. She and the client decide together whether to use more skills-based work, emotion-focused conversations, or deeper exploration over time.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls let participants read facial expressions and body language. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter updates, notes between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what helps most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English