About Nancy
Nancy Cechvala, LPC, focuses on helping people manage fear, anxiety, and life changes. She works with adults who feel stuck by phobias, panic, stress, or low self-esteem. Her direct, calm manner aims to make sessions practical and understandable for worried parents reading on a phone.
Nancy has 20 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Wisconsin. She draws on methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new behaviors, and rebuild emotional connection.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace the client can handle and focus on clear next steps rather than abstract theory. She commonly addresses trauma and abuse, anxiety, grief, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and problems with sleep and eating. Nancy also helps with career stress, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, and the strain of caregiving.
When needed she works on communication, control issues, and recovery from domestic violence or separation. Nancy blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and emotion-focused work. She adds mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people set goals and stay engaged between sessions.
This mix supports both immediate coping and longer-term change. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows therapist availability.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment.
How Nancy blends approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy places the person’s experience at the center of sessions. The therapist listens without judgment and helps clients set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep fears and phobias alive and teaches practical exercises to change them. Emotion-focused Therapy helps people notice and name emotions and then use that awareness to repair how they relate to themselves and others.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nancy will talk with each person about their symptoms, goals, and daily life before suggesting methods. She adjusts techniques over time so the work matches progress and changing needs.
Online formats offer real practical benefits. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction when needed, while phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions, complete short coaching tasks, or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to continue when in-person visits are not possible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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