Nancy Van Aman, LCSW

Nancy Van Aman is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and big life changes. She frames work as a practical collaboration and encourages people to use their own strengths to move forward. Her style aims to be calm and straightforward for someone who may feel overwhelmed.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on EMDR methods for trauma-related reactions and incorporates mindfulness and motivational interviewing when they fit the client's needs. Sessions tend to focus on skills people can use between meetings as well as steps they can try right away.

Nancy has worked with many issues related to relationships and role stress, including communication problems, codependency, caregiver strain, and challenges around divorce and separation. She also supports people facing mood concerns, panic, postpartum depression, and feelings of isolation or shame. Her background includes executive coaching for professionals who want clearer goals and practical strategies.

People usually find she offers steady guidance and clear suggestions without jargon. She will listen, help map the main problems, and co-create a plan with doable steps. The emphasis is on what will help in everyday life rather than long lists of theory.

Sessions are offered in English and take place remotely for residents of Florida. Nancy respects the courage it takes to ask for help and focuses on creating a workable path toward better day-to-day functioning.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes. It works well for anxiety, mood concerns, panic, and improving daily coping skills. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process traumatic memories and the reactions that follow by using guided bilateral stimulation alongside talk work. Both approaches can be adapted for remote sessions and aim to reduce distress and improve functioning.

Nancy treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with clients about goals, try different methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time. The idea is to pick methods that fit each person's needs and preferences rather than using one fixed route.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit regular sessions into busy lives. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone calls can be lower-bandwidth and simpler to schedule, and messaging or live chat can work for shorter check-ins or interim support. These options help people maintain momentum and access care from varied locations and schedules.