About Nancy
Nancy Ray is a licensed clinical social worker with 32 years of experience. She practices from a warm, client-centered stance and focuses on real problems people bring into session. Parents and individuals often seek her out for anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and panic symptoms.
She spent two decades doing mental health work with the U.S. Air Force. That background shaped her ability to stay calm under pressure and to help people organize practical steps forward.
Background and approach
She brings that same steady presence to concerns about relationships, parenting challenges, and mood changes. Nancy uses straightforward conversation to help clients name what is happening and try small changes. She often combines empathetic listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to reduce anxious thoughts and manage panic episodes.
Sessions aim to teach skills that people can use between appointments. People who have experienced domestic violence or who have veteran and armed forces concerns can find focused, understanding support. She also works with social anxiety, phobias, and panic disorder symptoms in ways that prioritize gradual progress.
Nancy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. She practices in Maine and conducts sessions in English. To get started, a short matching questionnaire helps connect someone to her schedule and the right session format.
Client-centered and CBT online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following what matters most to the person in front of her. It helps people feel heard and decide on practical next steps at their own pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it teaches concrete skills to reduce worry, panic, and low mood.Nancy treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, and together they pick strategies that feel doable. That collaborative process helps shape whether sessions lean more toward gentle listening, skill-building, or a mix of both.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone is good for lower bandwidth or when camera use is difficult, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or between-session contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep working on anxiety, panic, phobias, and relationship or parenting concerns.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
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- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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