Works with
- Anger
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- ADHD
How Nancy works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Nancy
Nancy Cechvala is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping individuals manage strong emotions, including anger, and cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making the next steps feel doable.
Nancy listens first and then helps people find practical ways to handle what feels overwhelming. She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs rather than a single fixed method.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward tools people can use between meetings to reduce reactivity and build steadier routines. Her background includes long-term clinical work with people affected by trauma and abuse, grief, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. She also helps with parenting challenges, caregiver stress, and problems at work that affect daily life.
This range gives her a broad view when patterns repeat across different problems. Nancy draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the person’s goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and emotionally-focused ideas to address how relationships shape feelings.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing often appear in sessions to help people notice patterns and find reasons to change. People meet with Nancy by phone, video, or text-based messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Her practice operates in English and is based in Wisconsin.
What Nancy works with
Everything Nancy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Nancy's practice.
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- ADHD
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Nancy lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects understanding, and helps set goals that matter to that person. This approach is helpful when someone needs a listening space that respects their values and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. Sessions include practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thoughts and develop new behaviors, which can help with anger, anxiety, sleep and mood problems.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on how emotions show up in relationships and personal patterns. It helps people identify and work through strong feelings in ways that reduce conflict and promote connection, useful for relationship strains and intimacy-related issues.
Nancy treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try approaches that suit those needs. Adjustments are made over time so work stays relevant and effective for the individual.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different rhythms of life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when deeper work is needed. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be used when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, and ongoing prompts between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and try tools in real time.
Questions people ask about Nancy
What concerns does she help with?
Nancy works with a wide range of issues including anger, trauma and abuse, stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family problems, parenting and career concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is person-centered and practical. She listens first, then helps people use tools like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to change patterns and reduce reactivity.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience working in clinical settings with people facing trauma, mood concerns and life transitions.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Wisconsin.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.