About Nancy
Nancy Brighton is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with decades of hands-on experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, work through relationship and intimacy concerns, and cope with trauma, grief, and major life changes. She also supports people facing ADHD, addictions, eating or sleeping difficulties, and career or self-esteem struggles.
Nancy takes a straightforward, respectful approach. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and skills that can fit into daily life. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her style blends evidence-informed methods with a warm, person-centered stance.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values, and attachment-based work to address relationship patterns. Across more than five decades of practice, Nancy has supported people through grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and challenges around identity and intimacy.
She brings calm presence and steady guidance to hard conversations. Her aim is to help clients feel clearer, calmer, and better able to make choices that match their goals. Sessions are offered in English and take place remotely through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Nancy works with adults who want practical strategies and steady support as they navigate change and heal from difficult experiences.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going, which can help with depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating concerns.Nancy will work with clients to find the best fit among these approaches. She treats this as a collaborative process, listening to your goals and trying methods that suit your needs. If an approach isn’t helping, she adjusts the plan together with you.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skills practice between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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