Nancy Dano , LMHC

Nancy Dano is a New York LMHC with ten years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are coping with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and codependency patterns. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, eating concerns, anger, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and major life changes.

Her approach is straightforward and person-centered. She builds a working relationship and moves at the client’s pace. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps rather than abstract concepts. Nancy uses skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address thinking patterns and emotional regulation.

Nancy also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Mindfulness techniques are used to build awareness and grounding skills. She blends these methods into conversations that aim to help people notice repetitive relationship habits and try different responses.

Her background includes both inpatient and outpatient settings. That experience informs how she supports people through acute stress and longer term work. Nancy emphasizes collaboration - clients and she decide what progress looks like and adjust pace as needed.

Many people find the work is practical and task-focused: identifying unhelpful patterns, practicing new boundaries, and trying small experiments between sessions. Nancy offers this direct style while attending to the emotional material that comes up during the work.

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