About Nancy
Nancy Manly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 21 years of experience supporting people through difficult seasons. She practices in Colorado and brings a steady, compassionate presence to sessions. Nancy focuses on practical skills so people can manage stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and life changes.
Her style is warm, honest, and strengths-based. She treats each person as the expert on their life and helps them build on what already works.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be calm and straightforward, with clear strategies and tools to use between meetings. Nancy draws from several approaches to shape personalized plans. She uses somatic ideas to help people notice and work with body sensations tied to emotion.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients clarify values and take meaningful action, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Practical concerns like sleep, eating, parenting strain, work stress, chronic pain, and caregiving challenges are addressed with concrete steps.
She helps people set boundaries, cope with loss, and manage addictive behaviors without assuming one single path fits everyone. Therapy can include discussion, skills practice, and gentle reflection on past wounds. Nancy helps people move at their own pace and focuses on sustainable changes that improve daily life.
She welcomes people who want straightforward support and tools for real-world problems.
How somatic and values-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body. Online sessions can guide gentle awareness of sensations, breath, and movement to reduce overwhelm and ground emotion. This is useful for trauma responses, anxiety, and stress reactions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions. In sessions clients learn skills to accept difficult feelings while building a life that matters to them. ACT is often helpful for depression, anxiety, and coping with life transitions.
Nancy will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit best. Finding the right mix is part of the work together. She listens to goals, tries methods, and adjusts based on what helps the client feel safer and more capable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, manage care responsibilities, or keep therapy consistent during life changes. Licensed professionals can use these options to practice skills, track progress, and maintain steady support without requiring travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English