About Nancy
Nancy Truett is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience in counseling and clinical mental health. She practices in Tennessee and brings long experience supporting people facing trauma, addiction, anxiety, and relationship challenges. Her work is practical and direct.
She listens first and helps people name what feels most urgent. Sessions often focus on skills to manage stress and anxiety, clearer thinking around decisions, and steps to reduce substance use or compulsive behavior.
Background and approach
Nancy uses several approaches to tailor care to each person. She draws on client-centered methods to follow the client's lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, and EMDR to address traumatic memories when appropriate. Motivational interviewing and narrative therapy are other tools she may bring in to help with motivation and life story work.
She has a background in settings that include schools, residential programs, and higher education. That range shaped a flexible style that fits different life stages and pressures. Nancy also integrates creative arts ideas from her literature and writing background when it helps people express and process difficult feelings.
People who reach out can expect a steady, evidence-informed approach with clear goals. Nancy works with issues like depression, bipolar concerns, parenting strain, eating-related struggles, sexual intimacy and LGBT matters, anger, and career stress. She helps people through life changes and the fallout from abuse or family-of-origin problems.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person's lead and building trust. Online sessions using this approach let the therapist tune into what matters most and adjust pace, tone, and topics to match the client's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. CBT works well online for issues like anxiety, depression, and stress because homework and skill practice can be reviewed between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, helps reduce the intensity of traumatic memories through a structured process; when it is used, the clinician explains steps and adapts pacing to the online setting.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative stance means approaches can change over time as needs and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like scheduling flexibility and varied communication methods. Video calls enable face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can fit into a work break, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options let people choose what fits their routine and comfort while still working on trauma, addiction, stress, relationship challenges, and other concerns.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English