About Nancy
Nancy Buchanan is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with 29 years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, down, or unsure how to rebuild confidence. She also supports those coping with grief and people trying to improve their relationships and communication.
Nancy centers sessions on each person's story and strengths. She treats clients as the expert on their life and works alongside them to set practical goals.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on clear steps, coping strategies, and building day-to-day skills that people can use between sessions. Her work covers a range of concerns from depression and self-esteem struggles to social anxiety and isolation. She also brings experience with issues such as abandonment, aging and geriatric matters, cancer-related stress, and substance use challenges.
Many clients seek help for family of origin questions, guilt or shame, and repairing connection with others. Nancy aims for an approachable, down-to-earth tone in sessions. She encourages small experiments and skills practice to test what helps in real life.
Progress is viewed as steady adjustments, not overnight fixes, and she helps people measure what’s moving forward. Starting therapy is acknowledged as a brave choice and Nancy frames the work as a collaboration. She focuses on realistic steps that fit each person’s life and priorities.
Using evidence-based techniques in online care
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on building skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, activity planning, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These tools help people reduce avoidance and regain confidence in daily life.Another useful approach emphasizes improving mood and activity balance for depression. It involves tracking daily routines, increasing rewarding activities, and testing small behavior changes to lift mood and energy. This method is straightforward and often helps people see measurable shifts in their day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That process is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a fuller conversation with visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging supports quick reflections or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep consistent momentum.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English