Nancy Hazelton, LCSW

Nancy Hazelton is a California licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience. She offers a calm, respectful presence and focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or depression.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a key tool to help clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to make sessions feel grounded and personal. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas inform how she explores goals and past patterns.

In sessions she aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s situation. That can mean short-term strategies for coping, skill-building for anxiety, or guided reflection about life purpose and midlife changes. She also works with caregiver stress, workplace concerns, communication problems, and first responder issues.

Her style is straightforward and compassionate. She helps people set practical steps they can try between sessions and checks in about what’s working. People who want a mix of skill practice and reflective talk may find her approach useful.

Nancy meets people where they are and adjusts pace to comfort and need. She encourages curious, honest exploration and supports clients as they try new ways of coping.

Practical approaches you can use online

CBT helps people identify patterns of thinking that make stress and anxiety worse and then try small behavior changes to see what helps. It is often used for worry, low mood, and coping with life changes. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience, offering a supportive space to talk through struggles and clarify goals. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that can reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation.

Finding the right combination of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals and comfort level. Together they will try tools, review what helps, and adjust the plan as needs evolve.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session with visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people get support in ways that match their daily life.