About Nancy
Nancy Dano is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She focuses on practical ways to manage mood, improve communication, and handle life changes. Her approach emphasizes a calm, steady pace that respects each person’s comfort level.
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used for emotional regulation and managing intense feelings.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas help when past relationships affect current connections. Nancy draws on ten years of clinical experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She builds a positive working relationship and works collaboratively toward clear goals.
Sessions are paced to fit what the client needs at that time. Her work includes support for parenting concerns, caregiving stress, eating and body image issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses abandonment and attachment issues, blended family challenges, and communication or control struggles.
Nancy holds a New York licensed mental health counselor credential, LMHC. She offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. Practical tools, coping skills, and gentle coaching are central to how she helps people move forward.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. It looks at patterns of closeness and distance and helps people form healthier ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot negative thoughts and test them with practical experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when video isn't needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English