About Nancy
Nancy Truett is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years in counseling and clinical mental health. She practices from Tennessee and brings long experience in substance abuse treatment and trauma-related care. Nancy uses straightforward language and practical strategies so parents can understand next steps quickly.
Her background includes work in agency settings, independent practice, K-12 schools, and college counseling. She has supported people in residential treatment and with complex trauma histories.
Background and approach
Nancy also directs counseling services at a community college and is a doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology and Adult Learning at the University of Tennessee. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods to focus on each person's goals. She blends cognitive behavioral ideas to help people change unhelpful patterns and also uses narrative approaches and EMDR when trauma work is needed.
Motivational interviewing is part of how she supports people facing substance use or ambivalence about change. Nancy often brings arts-based tools into counseling, reflecting her undergraduate work in creative writing. She has additional training in grief, loss, trauma, and cultural studies that inform how she understands diverse life experiences.
Her clinical and research interests include psychological and emotional abuse, women’s trauma, and related recovery issues. People come to her for help with stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, ADHD, parenting strain, and coping with life changes. She aims to make therapy practical and manageable, so families and individuals can try small changes that add up over time.
Approaches for online trauma and behavior work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and building understanding so clients can set their own goals and move at a comfortable pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and offers practical exercises to reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful habits. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often shortened to EMDR, is used for trauma work and helps people process painful memories in ways that can reduce emotional intensity.Nancy treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. From there she recommends starting points and adjusts methods as progress is tracked and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation for detailed work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing out thoughts helps clarify feelings. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and try techniques between sessions.
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What this therapist 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
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