About Nancy
Nancy Cechvala is a licensed professional counselor who brings 20 years of clinical experience to her work. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and stress find clearer ways to cope. Her manner is steady and practical, and she aims to make therapy feel doable for busy lives.
She begins by listening to what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on concrete steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Nancy blends talk, skill practice, and gentle reflection so clients can test what helps in the real world. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, and mood disorders such as bipolar depression. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, caregiving stress, career challenges, and compassion fatigue.
This wide experience informs a flexible approach in sessions. Nancy uses a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally focused methods, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That mix lets her tailor sessions to practical problems like sleep, eating, anger, and focus, as well as deeper emotional wounds.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person. Nancy aims to help people build habits that reduce distress and increase daily functioning. People in Wisconsin who want straightforward, experience-based support may find her approach approachable and useful.
How Nancy’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-centered therapy centers the person's goals and experience, so sessions begin with open conversation about what is most important. This approach helps guide each visit and keeps work focused on real-life priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills for managing thoughts, sleep, anxiety, and mood. In online sessions CBT often includes short exercises, homework, and tracking that people can use between meetings. Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding and shifting emotional patterns in relationships and personal life, helping people notice and respond differently to strong feelings.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit the client's goals, and adjust based on what is most helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to pick strategies that match needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapeutic work and skill practice, phone can work well for check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick updates or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, busy family routines, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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