Nancy Brighton, LCSW
Florida · 53 years in practice
Nancy Brighton is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with over five decades of practice.
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 practice. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and major life changes. Nancy focuses on practical steps and steady support so people can take the next right step for themselves.
She sees each person as the expert on their own life and builds on existing strengths. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person's needs.
Background and approach
The work often includes clarifying goals, learning new coping skills, and exploring patterns that get in the way. Nancy draws on Jungian ideas when exploring meaning and personal symbols, and she uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people act in line with their values. She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches to strengthen relationships and increase emotional understanding.
Her methods are straightforward and conversational. She offers practical tools from cognitive behavioral work when habits and thoughts are a problem. Nancy pays attention to both feelings and everyday routines that affect mood, sleep, and focus.
With 53 years of experience, she brings long-term perspective to complex concerns such as grief, addiction, ADHD, eating and sleep problems, and caregiver stress. People can expect steady guidance aimed at clearer choices and more manageable days.
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
- Jungian Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship 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
Therapeutic approaches and online options
She integrates Jungian Therapy to explore personal symbols, life themes, and meaning; this can help people who feel stuck or are seeking deeper self-understanding. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, is used to clarify values and teach skills for acting on them despite difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy supports work on relational patterns and helps people notice how early bonds shape current connections.Nancy treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds. The focus is on practical choices and building skills that match what the person wants to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people keep continuity of care while fitting therapy into daily life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Nancy address in therapy?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, ADHD, depression, bipolar, and related concerns listed in her specialties.
How does she approach therapy with clients?
Her style is collaborative and conversational. She helps people set goals, learn coping skills, and notice patterns that affect daily life.
What kind of background does she have?
She holds a LCSW and brings 53 years of professional experience working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues.
Where does she practice and what are her credentials?
She is a Florida LCSW and practices from Florida as indicated in her profile details.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
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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