About Nancy
Nancy Brighton is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. She brings decades of experience to each conversation and treats clients as the experts in their own stories. Nancy aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what’s hard and find steady ways forward.
She uses somatic ideas alongside talk-based methods to help people notice how emotions show up in the body and then work with those sensations.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy are part of her toolbox when changes in thinking or behavior are helpful. Nancy also draws on attachment-focused and client-centered approaches to keep sessions grounded in the person’s needs. Sessions focus on practical steps and self-awareness.
Nancy helps people develop coping skills, manage intense feelings, and rebuild confidence after setbacks. She pays attention to patterns from past relationships that affect present life and supports healthier ways of relating and communicating. Her background includes more than five decades in clinical practice, with experience across a wide range of concerns from grief and trauma to addiction and caregiving stress.
Nancy uses that experience to tailor an approach that fits each person’s goals and pace. People can expect straightforward language and a steady presence during work together. She encourages small, achievable changes and offers tools that can be used between sessions to support ongoing progress.
Approaches that combine body awareness and practical skills
Somatic-informed work focuses on how stress and emotion show up in the body. It helps people notice sensations, breathe through tension, and shift physical patterns that keep problems active. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, emphasizes noticing thoughts without getting stuck and choosing actions that match personal values to improve daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Together you can adjust the plan as you learn what helps most for your situation and pace.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you work face-to-face from home, while phone sessions suit people who prefer voice only. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing check-ins and brief coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit regular work on stress, relationships, and coping skills into a crowded schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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