About Nancy
Nancy Gilmer greets people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn. She is a Kentucky-based LPCC with 20 years of clinical experience. Nancy aims to make first steps feel manageable and straightforward for someone under stress or facing big changes.
Nancy uses plain, practical conversation to identify what matters most to each person. She listens for patterns that raise anxiety, sap energy, or keep someone from moving forward.
Background and approach
Then she focuses on small, achievable steps clients can try between visits. Her work often addresses anxiety, stress, panic, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also helps with mood disorders, addiction-related concerns, caregiver stress, and life-stage questions like midlife change or end-of-life issues.
Nancy pays attention to how shame, guilt, or isolation can make everyday problems harder to handle. Therapeutic approaches include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and take action, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking, and client-centered methods that let the person's goals guide the pace.
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions for people who want tools to calm and focus their attention. Nancy treats each person as an individual and works collaboratively to find what fits. She supports clients exploring career stress, compassion fatigue, or struggles with self-esteem.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients through online formats.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what they value and take committed steps toward those goals even when hard feelings are present. It is useful for stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions where direction and motivation feel lost.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing different behaviors to change mood and functioning. It is often used for anxiety, panic, mood concerns, and problems that respond to concrete behavioral experiments.
Client-centered therapy centers the conversation on the person's own goals. The therapist follows the client's lead, offering empathy and reflection so the client can find their own answers and build confidence.
Nancy treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss which methods might fit your needs and preferences, and adjust the plan as you try things and give feedback. You and she work together to match goals with practical steps.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well for lower bandwidth or when hands-free time is needed, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging is handy for brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make scheduling easier and help people keep continuity of care across locations.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English