- Years in practice
- 23
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Nancy
Nancy Truett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 23 years of clinical experience. She combines practical skills and a calm presence to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and parenting challenges. Nancy writes plainly and offers down-to-earth guidance for everyday problems.
She has worked in schools, residential treatment, agency settings, and independent practice. That variety informs her approach and helps her match strategies to each person’s situation. She often draws on creative and narrative methods seeded by a background in literature and writing.
Background and approach
Nancy uses client-centered methods to build a trusting, respectful relationship. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. For people with trauma history she includes EMDR-informed approaches and trauma-aware pacing when appropriate.
Sessions focus on practical steps that fit into a busy life. She helps people with parenting stress, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction concerns, grief, and coping with life changes. Nancy pays attention to patterns that come from family of origin, codependency, and control issues.
She emphasizes collaboration and motivation, using motivational interviewing to support readiness for change. Her experience includes work around eating issues, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Nancy practices in Tennessee and offers services in English.
What Nancy works with
Everything Nancy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Nancy helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Nancy lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic Approaches Used Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experiences and helps build a respectful, collaborative relationship that supports change. This approach is useful for people feeling overwhelmed by parenting demands, relationship strain, or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and break unhelpful patterns. It often includes simple exercises and plans that can be practiced between sessions. EMDR-informed work addresses traumatic memories by using structured processing and paced steps to reduce intense reactions tied to past events.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Nancy will work together with each person to choose methods that match goals, comfort level, and the issues at hand. She adapts pacing and techniques based on how each person responds.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow real-time conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
Questions people ask about Nancy
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Nancy helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, ADHD, and related problems like codependency and grief.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She combines a client-centered stance with cognitive behavioral work and motivational interviewing. Sessions are collaborative and focused on practical steps and clearer thinking.
How long has she been practicing?
She brings 23 years of experience working in schools, residential treatment, agency settings, and independent practice.
Where is she licensed and based?
Nancy holds an LPC credential and practices in Tennessee.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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