Nancy Brighton
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Accepting new clients online
About Nancy
I am licensed in Florida with 45 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, & coping with life changes. I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards a change. I am here to support & empower you in that journey.
What Nancy helps with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
How Nancy works
- 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
- Internal Family Systems
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What clients say
- “Nancy is absolutely wonderful and supportive!”
- “She’s a light in what can sometimes be a dark tunnel. Her experience and constant support are so uplifting I infinitely grateful.”
- “Nancy has so much experience, and knowledge to offer!”
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- “I've been grateful for my time with Nancy Brighton. She's a thoughtful and understanding Christian therapist who truly listens without judgment. Her guidance, especially through breathing exercises and calm reflection, has helped me navigate tough moments with peace. She's also incredibly responsive and always makes me feel supported and heard. Highly recommend! Just started counseling with her and she’s helping me through my trauma.”
- “A great person and therapist. She is quick to understand someone and their needs and she cares deeply about helping. She messaged me for a whole week after our first appointment to check on me. I’ve never had a therapist before that made me feel so important.”
- “Nancy is so well versed in the mental health field, forever learning new information and skills. I love her!!”
- “Nancy is always available and very professional! The best therapist you can have!”
- “Nancy has been the most down to Earth therapist I've ever been able to work with. She is able to communicate in a way that is personal and respectful to my situations. She is always ready with helpful exercises and activities to do on my own between sessions. She has helped me feel more empowered and in control of my own life. Truly cannot wait to see the outcome of more sessions.”
- “I had a great session with Nancy. We covered a lot in a short amount of time, and we even went overtime a bit. She taught me some really good techniques in a short amount of time. I'm very surprised. I feel more connected to my mind, body spirit. I'm also more motivated to operate better moving forward.”
- “From our first session, Nancy has been 100% amazing. She is so easy to engage with and is on point.”
- “I haven't had many interactions with Nancy just yet however I feel confident and reassured about her expertise and experience! She is vary kind and open about many pathways!”
- “Nancy has the experience, education (in so many useful modalities) AND a perpetual student mindset. She’s an exceptional combination of well studied and humble. Her somatic approach to couples counseling and esoteric wisdom make her a stand-out couples counselor. Truly one of a kind. I hope more therapists take her lead.”
- “Nancy has been terrific at addressing our needs. She is incredibly insightful. Our experience with her has been very positive.”
- “Nancy is the best therapist you can have! She’s very professional and supportive and always available!”
- “Nancy has helped me flip my perspective. I was feeling an oppressive sadness and weight that was dragging me down and making me feel lost. Now I am back in the flow. I am feeling inspired and valuable. Nancy is just the person I needed to connect with in my journey at this moment. She is awesome during live sessions and gives me many resources to research outside of sessions. She has helped me improve my relationship with my beloved spouse and my extended family. I would recommend Nancy to anyone who is open minded and appreciates an array of paths to healing. I feel she is highly intelligent, creative, loving, fully accepting and uniquely wonderful. She has extensive professional training, experience and expertise but she is also just a loving, kind soul with a passion to live her truth helping others fully enjoy the life experience.”
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