ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST

Hi, I’m Nancy. I work with thoughtful, highly capable adults and couples who are used to being the fixer, caretaker, achiever, or person who holds everything together—yet still find themselves overfunctioning, questioning their own needs, or repeating relational patterns they already understand intellectually. Many of the people I work with are healing from emotionally immature or narcissistic relationships, family-of-origin wounds, chronic people-pleasing, trauma, or patterns of putting themselves aside to maintain connection.

My approach is integrative, relational, trauma-informed, and systems-oriented. I draw from attachment theory, parts work, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation, and relational approaches to help clients connect past experiences with what is happening in the present. With couples, I help partners move beneath recurring conflict to better understand the needs, fears, and patterns driving their cycle.

I’m also a lifelong learner with a background spanning psychology, anthropology, public policy, education, organizational systems, and religious studies. Before becoming a therapist, I worked in Human Resources and education, experiences that taught me to look at people within the larger relationships, cultures, and systems they inhabit. This shapes my curiosity about not only what someone is experiencing, but what they may have learned to become in response to their environment. I also welcome spirituality into therapy when it is meaningful to the client, while honoring that healing can take many forms.

Ultimately, I see healing as creating more choice: as we better understand what has shaped us and what is happening within and around us, we can respond with greater intention rather than simply repeating what has become familiar.

I earned my master’s degree in Marriage & Family Therapy from Campbellsville University and am supervised by Christie Byrd, LCSW.