About Nancy
Nancy Gnecco is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of clinical experience in Maine. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, and changes in relationships. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate.
She aims to make the first step easier for someone who wants a more fulfilling life. She creates a calm space where clients can talk about their thoughts and feelings without judgment. Conversations focus on practical ways to manage anxiety, rebuild confidence, and cope with major life shifts.
Background and approach
She also addresses intimacy-related concerns and the long-term effects of trauma and abuse. Nancy can use non-traditional tools when clients ask, including Energy Psychology approaches such as Emotional Freedom Techniques. These are offered as options alongside more familiar therapeutic conversations.
She listens to each person and tailors the pace and methods to what feels most useful. Her background includes work with issues that commonly affect adults as they age, blended family challenges, chronic pain or illness, and struggles with body image and eating. She also brings experience supporting people dealing with divorce, domestic violence, dissociation, and feelings of guilt or shame.
Nancy emphasizes collaboration. She helps people set small, achievable goals and practices to use between sessions. The focus is on building skills that fit into daily life so progress can continue outside the therapy hour.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on helping people name and manage symptoms, change unhelpful patterns, and build coping skills. One approach Nancy may use involves structured talking and skill practice to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning; this helps with worry, panic, and stress management. Another option she offers on request is Emotional Freedom Techniques, a form of Energy Psychology that combines brief physical tapping with guided attention to reduce distress and reframe difficult memories.Choosing the right method is part of the work. Nancy approaches this collaboratively, discussing options and adjusting methods to match each person’s goals and comfort. She reviews what is working and adapts pace and tools as needed so the plan fits each life situation.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging suit people who want quick written check-ins, ongoing notes, or more flexible timing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue support when in-person visits are not convenient.
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What this therapist works with
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- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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