Nancy Brighton, LCSW
Florida · 53 years in practice
Nancy Brighton is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with over five decades of professional experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, Florida
- SW2829 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1255675807 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 53
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Nancy
Nancy Brighton is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with over five decades of professional experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, mood swings, trauma, and major life changes. She also supports concerns around relationships, intimacy, addictions, ADHD, grief, and career stress.
Her approach begins by listening to each person's story and noticing strengths they already have. She works in a warm, straightforward way and aims to help clients name feelings and patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings and on building emotional awareness in the moment. Nancy uses tools drawn from Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at emotional experience and attachment patterns. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered work to help people try new ways of coping.
The focus is on what matters to the person and on small, manageable changes. Over many years she has supported people dealing with grief, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and life transitions. She pays attention to how past losses and attachment wounds can shape current relationships and responses to stress.
Her style is steady and respectful, aimed at helping people feel understood and clearer about next steps. Sessions are offered in English and take place with a licensed professional in Florida. Nancy emphasizes collaboration and encourages people to bring questions about goals, pacing, and methods to their first meeting.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Nancy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Nancy names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Emotion-focused and acceptance-based care online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and working with emotional responses and attachment patterns to help people change how they relate to themselves and others. It can be useful for people who feel stuck in repeating emotional cycles or who want clearer emotional connection.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and then take small steps toward values-driven goals. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and chronic struggle that gets in the way of daily life.
Nancy approaches online work collaboratively, helping clients choose which methods fit their goals and preferences. She will talk through options and adjust the balance of emotion-focused, acceptance, or practical CBT strategies based on what matters most to the client.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for emotional work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or messaging can be helpful for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Nancy work with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy challenges, addictions, ADHD, grief, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on listening, building emotional awareness, and trying practical steps between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She is a licensed clinical social worker with 53 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns across the lifespan.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds a Florida LCSW and practices with clients in Florida.
Can sessions be held in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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