About Nancy
Nancy Dano is a licensed mental health counselor with 10 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and issues around relationships and intimacy. Her focus also includes eating concerns, ADHD, self-esteem, and coping with major life changes.
Nancy uses a straightforward, collaborative style. She builds a positive working relationship and moves at each person's pace. Sessions focus on setting clear goals and practicing real skills to manage emotions and reactions.
Background and approach
Her background includes both inpatient and outpatient settings, which shaped her skill with crisis moments and ongoing care. She blends evidence-informed tools such as cognitive behavioral strategies and dialectical behavior approaches with mindful practices to reduce distress. In sessions she emphasizes attachment patterns and how they affect current relationships.
That perspective helps with issues like abandonment, communication problems, and codependency. Clients also work on practical steps for challenges such as caregiver stress and body image concerns. Nancy guides people through grief, bipolar-related mood shifts, and the long-term effects of trauma with steady support.
She is comfortable including coaching elements when people want concrete behavior change ideas. The first meetings typically focus on what matters most to the client and clear next steps.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current behavior and feelings. It helps people understand patterns like abandonment fears and communication problems so they can try different ways of relating in present relationships.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the person sets the pace and goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a calm space to process grief, trauma, or major life changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It often includes practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and change patterns that feed depression or anger.
Nancy will work with each person to choose which approaches fit best. She treats this as a collaborative process and adjusts techniques based on the person's goals and preferences. Finding the right mix is part of the therapy journey rather than a single upfront decision.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to keep continuity when travel or schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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