About Nancy
Nancy Bodnar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience. She practices in New Jersey and offers straightforward help for common life stresses, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, and ADHD concerns. She uses approaches that focus on the person and their goals.
Sessions emphasize practical steps, clearer communication, and building coping skills. Nancy draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people manage thoughts and daily stressors.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in independent practice and outpatient hospital settings. She earned a Master of Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work in 2002 and has experience with trauma, loss, mood disorders, and issues related to sexual orientation and cultural diversity. Nancy often blends short-term problem-solving with deeper work about how past relationships affect current patterns.
That means some sessions focus on immediate coping and skill building, while others look at attachment, abandonment, or family of origin issues that keep repeating. She also supports people dealing with addiction, caregiver stress, impulsivity, loneliness, and blended family challenges. Communication skills and relationship patterns are common topics in sessions.
Therapy with Nancy is collaborative. She helps people set clear goals and checks progress along the way. Practical tools, thoughtful listening, and steady guidance are central to her approach.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and strengths. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps people find paths that make sense for their lives, which can be useful for relationship and self-esteem issues.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers clear tools and homework to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and address impulsivity or addictive patterns.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm stress and reduce reactivity. Those skills often pair well with CBT to make daily coping more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust over time. This is a collaborative process where feedback shapes the path forward.
Online therapy brings practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for in-depth conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, coaching between sessions, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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