Nancy Truett, LPC

Nancy Truett, LPC, has worked in counseling and substance-abuse treatment for more than two decades. She leads counseling services at a community college and is a doctoral candidate in educational psychology. Nancy combines clinical experience with a background in creative writing to help people talk through hard things.

She brings experience from agency, K-12, college, and residential treatment settings. That background includes work with adolescents in alternative school and residential programs and adults in substance-abuse care. Her focus areas include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and parenting challenges.

Nancy uses person-centered approaches alongside cognitive behavioral techniques to address thoughts and behaviors that keep people stuck. She also integrates narrative methods and motivational interviewing to help people find and follow their own goals. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is part of her toolkit for trauma-related work.

Expect a practical, arts-informed style that draws on writing and creativity when helpful. Sessions typically include talk, focused skills practice, and exercises tailored to daily life. Nancy pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns and helps people try new ways of coping.

She is based in Tennessee and works in English. Her long career includes roles in higher education and community settings, and she often supports people dealing with complex histories of abuse, grief, or family difficulties.

How therapy approaches and online sessions can fit your life

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s lead. The therapist offers empathy, reflects what she hears, and helps people make choices that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and mood problems. EMDR is a trauma-informed method that uses structured processing to reduce the hold of painful memories and related emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice may change over time as progress is made or new issues come up.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as shorter check-ins during a work break, sessions that avoid travel time, or phone calls when video would be difficult. Licensed professionals can use these options to focus on skills practice, processing difficult memories, or goal planning in ways that suit a person’s routine.