About Nancy
Nancy Cechvala is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage hard moments. She focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier. Her tone is calm and direct, and she works to make therapy approachable for someone who might be worried or unsure.
She often helps people recover from trauma and abuse and cope with anxiety, depression, bipolar mood struggles, and grief. She supports work-related stress and compassion fatigue, and she works with parenting concerns, family problems, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
She also addresses sleep and eating difficulties, anger, and attention challenges such as ADHD. Nancy uses straightforward, client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals in view. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Emotionally focused work helps people name and shift patterns that affect relationships. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of her toolbox to build awareness and strengthen motivation for change. These approaches are used in practical ways during sessions so clients can try new strategies between meetings.
Sessions may include talking, skill practice, and short exercises to reduce stress. She is licensed as an LPC in Wisconsin and works in English. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Nancy describes therapy as a collaborative process where the plan adapts to what each person needs and wants.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely to the person and building a collaborative plan. It helps people feel heard and shapes goals around what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and anger. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift emotional patterns that affect close relationships and intimacy-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process means methods are mixed and matched to suit the client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is lower or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coping tips, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this counselor 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