About Nancy
Nancy Benner is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Oregon with 24 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, trauma, or addictive patterns. Nancy also supports people facing changes in life stages and challenges with self-esteem or anger.
Her style is straightforward and warm. She begins by listening and getting a clear sense of a person's situation. Sessions focus on practical steps that fit into daily life and build on each person's strengths.
Background and approach
The work aims to make small, usable changes that add up over time. Nancy combines several approaches to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered techniques to stay grounded in the person's goals, cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness tools are offered to increase awareness and calm. She can also draw on relationship-focused methods when needed to improve communication and reduce conflict. That can help people who are struggling with commitment, blended family issues, or communication breakdowns.
People who come to Nancy often want clear steps and a collaborative plan. She works with individuals on concerns such as bipolar symptoms, eating issues, attachment or personality-related challenges, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. Her aim is to help people move toward steadier, more manageable days.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building on strengths; it helps people who need a respectful, steady space to talk through hard things. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating stress without making things worse.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and will adapt methods over time. Treatment is collaborative and flexible, with the plan adjusted as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in option, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep regular contact with licensed professionals and therapists.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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