About Nancy
Nancy Manly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with more than 21 years of experience. She offers calm, direct support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and major life changes. Nancy listens first and helps build clear steps toward change.
Her sessions focus on practical skills and steady progress. She uses a range of methods to help people manage intense feelings, change unhelpful thinking, and rebuild daily routines like sleeping and eating.
Background and approach
The work aims to reduce distress and increase moments of relief and clearer decision-making. Nancy describes her style as warm, honest, and strengths-based. She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and partners with them to set realistic goals.
Sessions include concrete strategies such as coping skills, behavioral experiments, and values-based planning. She has particular experience supporting people with relationship and intimacy concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and the emotional fallout of loss and life transitions. Nancy also helps with self-esteem, work and career questions, commitment and communication problems, and challenges linked to substance use and addictive behaviors.
Nancy adapts the plan to fit each person’s pace and situation. She draws on approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to shape treatment. Her aim is steady, sustainable change that fits the life someone wants to build.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when emotions are hard. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on concrete steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through experiments and practice; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to reduce reactive behaviors and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nancy will talk about options, try practical techniques, and check in to see what helps. Together they will shape the work around goals, daily demands, and what feels most useful in real life.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible in flexible ways. Video calls allow face-to-face work for skill teaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a short break or work around bandwidth limits. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, and continuing momentum between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule consistent meetings and keep practice going in day-to-day life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English