About Nancy
Nancy Gnecco is a licensed professional counselor working in Maine with 30 years of experience. She helps people tackle stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and struggles with intimacy and self esteem. Nancy focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier and more manageable.
She listens without judgment and aims to create an open space where clients can talk about difficult feelings. Sessions are straightforward and grounded in real-life concerns.
Background and approach
Nancy also offers non-traditional options such as Emotional Freedom Techniques when a client asks for them. Her approach emphasizes coping skills and gradual change. She helps people build confidence, handle life transitions, and cope with grief or loss.
For those dealing with health or chronic pain she works on strategies that fit daily routines. Nancy brings experience with family of origin issues, communication problems, codependency, and divorce or separation. She also addresses eating and body image concerns, dissociation, and guilt or shame.
First responder issues and recovery after natural or human-caused disasters are among her additional focus areas. Clients can expect clear, practical conversations and tools they can use between sessions. Nancy aims to help people move toward a more satisfying life at a pace that feels right for them.
Evidence-based approaches and online flexibility
Nancy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. One approach focuses on building coping skills and practical strategies for anxiety and stress. This work involves identifying triggers, trying short behavioral experiments, and practicing simple skill-based tasks between sessions to reduce worry and increase calm.Another approach she offers targets trauma and abuse-related reactions by helping clients process difficult memories and reduce their disruptive effects. This involves paced conversation, grounding strategies, and learning ways to respond differently when old patterns emerge. When clients request it, she can incorporate Emotional Freedom Techniques as a non-traditional option alongside these approaches.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for conversation and teaching skills, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be used for short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, medical needs, or a busy home schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- 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