About Nancy
Nancy Van Aman is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She also offers coaching to boost motivation and self-esteem.
Nancy aims to create a calm, practical space for people to talk through what matters most to them. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She uses tools drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are used to help people stay present and reduce overwhelming feelings. For trauma-related concerns she may draw on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to process distressing memories. Nancy blends therapeutic work with coaching-style guidance for people who want clearer goals and action plans.
Sessions typically include talking, skill practice, and small doable steps to try between meetings. She helps people translate insights into everyday changes that feel manageable. Over three decades of practice have given her experience with a wide range of concerns, including postpartum mood issues, panic attacks, and feelings of isolation.
She also addresses relationship patterns like codependency and communication problems, plus stress linked to caregiving and life transitions. Nancy meets people where they are and respects their pace. Her aim is to help each person build confidence, handle setbacks, and move toward a steadier daily life.
Practical support and clear next steps are central to her work.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Nancy often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try different, more useful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and focused on small changes that reduce stress and anxiety.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for clients who have distressing memories that keep coming up. EMDR aims to reduce the intensity of those memories so they cause less disruption in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest ways to proceed. That planning is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls let people see facial cues and do deeper conversational work. Phone sessions are useful when a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style tasks, and ongoing progress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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