About Nancy
Nancy Montes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of experience in California. She presents herself as a steady, compassionate clinician who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and changes in life. Her approach aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and practical for worried parents and busy adults.
Nancy uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person. She listens for values, strengths, and daily obstacles, then builds a plan that fits real life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and skills that can be practiced between meetings. Her background includes long experience with caregiving stress, aging and geriatric concerns, postpartum depression, and issues around self-esteem and body image. She has worked with people who struggle with isolation, communication problems, and complicated family dynamics.
Phobias and social anxiety are also areas she addresses in session. Nancy draws on several therapeutic styles to meet different needs. She blends client-centered methods with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns.
Emotion-focused and Jungian approaches are available for people wanting deeper work on feelings and personal meaning. People who do best with her tend to want a practical yet thoughtful partner in therapy. She aims to support parents, caregivers, and individuals through grief, life transitions, and ongoing anxiety with respect and cultural sensitivity.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening deeply and following the client's priorities. In practice this means sessions begin by understanding your goals and building a plan that feels realistic for daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, involves identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and trying small, practical experiments to change them; it is useful for anxiety, phobias, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose and adjust methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. That gives room to try skill-based CBT exercises one week and a more emotion-focused conversation the next, depending on what is helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good when visual cues matter and a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth is preferable. Messaging and live chat work well for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when scheduling a live session is difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy around caregiving, work, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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