About Nancy
Nancy Tracy is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She brings 26 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people through major life changes.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and affirming, especially for LGBTQ concerns and relationship struggles. Clients meet with Nancy to talk through grief, self-esteem worries, and shifts in identity.
She also addresses communication problems, commitment issues, and challenges that come with adoption and foster care. Her work includes support around aging issues, body image, and living with HIV/AIDS.
Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. Nancy listens closely, helps people name what matters to them, and supports practical next steps.
She draws on several approaches to match interventions to each person’s needs. Her practice also covers topics such as codependency, control issues, divorce and separation, and feelings of emptiness tied to family of origin concerns.
First responder stress and aspects of alternative sexual culture, including BDSM and kink, are part of her experience. She welcomes conversations about gender dysphoria and related identity questions.
Nancy aims to help people find steadier footing during transitions. She emphasizes building resilience, clearer communication, and more grounded self-understanding.
Every plan is geared to a person’s goals and daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on helping people notice what they value and take actions that match those values. It can be useful for grief, low self-esteem, and feeling stuck when life changes occur. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on emotions and helps people deepen understanding of their feelings and reactions, which can be helpful for relationship concerns and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nancy will discuss these methods with each person and together decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. The plan can change as needs evolve, and choices are made collaboratively to match what a person wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations without travel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit quick check-ins or busy days. These options help make therapy more flexible and easier to schedule around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English