About Nancy
Nancy Brighton is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker with decades of practice helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and ADHD-related challenges. She supports those dealing with relationship strain, grief, trauma, addiction, and big life changes. Nancy emphasizes practical steps and steady support so people can regain balance and move forward.
She centers sessions on each person’s strengths and life story. Nancy uses straightforward conversation to identify what’s getting in the way and to build small, achievable strategies.
Background and approach
She encourages clients to try new ways of coping and to notice what works in day-to-day life. Her approach draws on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based strategies to help people change unhelpful patterns and manage difficult emotions. She also brings attachment-focused ideas to help clients understand how past relationships shape current reactions.
Nancy has more than five decades of professional experience as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker. That long career has included work with people facing chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image and eating concerns, and identity issues including LGBT matters. Sessions tend to be practical and conversational, with time spent on skills you can use between meetings.
Nancy aims to help people set realistic goals, practice coping tools, and notice steady progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take value-driven actions despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It often suits people struggling with anxiety, low motivation, or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and can help people understand and change patterns in close relationships and intimacy issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust the plan as you learn what helps. Clients and therapist work together to pick tools and exercises that feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or visual check-ins are not needed, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options can make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or medical needs, and they allow continuation of care when travel or location changes occur.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 53 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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