Nancy Dano, LMHC

Therapist in New York

Nancy Dano is a licensed mental health counselor with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma.

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Licensed inNew York
License006169
NPI 1588919088
Experience10+ years
LanguagesEnglish

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About Nancy

Nancy Dano is a licensed mental health counselor with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She takes a practical, steady approach and focuses on building a working relationship that feels safe and respectful. Sessions are paced to fit each person’s needs and goals.

Nancy draws on attachment-based ideas and skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address relationship and emotional challenges.

Background and approach

She uses mindfulness exercises and client-centered methods to help people notice patterns, calm strong emotions, and try new ways of responding. Her approach is straightforward and skills-focused while remaining warm and supportive. Her background includes both inpatient and outpatient settings, which gave her experience with people during crises and over longer-term care.

That variety helps when someone needs immediate coping tools or a plan for steady progress. Nancy often helps people dealing with parenting stress, caregiver strain, eating and body-image concerns, attention differences, and anger or control issues. She also supports people facing attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and intimacy-related struggles.

In sessions she works collaboratively, setting clear goals and practicing concrete skills between meetings. She believes steady, small steps lead to noticeable change over time.

Credentials

LMHC (New York): License 006169 · expires September 2028
NPI: 1588919088 · national provider identifier

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Focus areas and approaches

Everything Nancy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Depression
Relationship issues
Intimacy-related issues
Eating disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Attachment issues
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Avoidant personality
Blended family issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Dependent personality
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
First responder issues
Gender dysphoria
Guilt and shame
Impulsivity
Intellectual disability
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Mood disorders
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Paranoia
Personality disorders
Phobias
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Sexual assault and abuse
Social anxiety and phobia
Somatization
Trichotillomania
Young adult issues

Approaches Nancy names

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Online support

How attachment work and skills-based therapy translate online

Attachment-based work focuses on understanding how early relationships shape current patterns and safety in relationships. Online sessions use conversation and guided reflection to identify attachment needs, practice new ways of relating, and reduce fear around closeness and abandonment. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. In an online setting this often means tracking thoughts between sessions, practicing behavioral experiments, and reviewing results together over video or messaging. Dialectical behavior therapy provides concrete skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills can be taught in sessions and rehearsed using short phone check-ins, text-based practice, or longer video appointments. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with different formats. Techniques may be adjusted as progress is made. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can help with brief support, skills practice, or maintaining momentum between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep work on coping skills consistent.

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Frequently asked

What concerns does Nancy help with?

Nancy supports people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and body-image concerns, parenting and caregiver stress, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, anger, and self-esteem problems.

What is her therapy style like?

Her style is collaborative and paced to each person. She focuses on building a positive working relationship and using practical skills to reach clear goals.

What experience does she bring?

She has ten years of clinical experience and has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings, giving her exposure to crisis care and longer-term treatment.

What are her credentials and where is she located?

She is listed as an LMHC and practices in New York.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.

What session formats does she offer?

Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Nancy?

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