Nancy Manly, LPC

Nancy Manly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 21 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and major life changes. Nancy aims to help clients build skills for daily life and healthier thinking patterns.

Her style is warm, direct, and respectful. She treats each person as the expert on their own life while offering guidance rooted in mental health practice. Sessions emphasize concrete strategies that you can use between meetings.

Nancy draws on several therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Client-Centered Therapy. She mixes these with techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when helpful. The result is a flexible plan shaped around your needs and goals.

Common areas she helps with include relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep and eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, chronic illness and caregiving burdens, trauma, and addiction. She also addresses more specific issues like abandonment, body image, and co-occurring conditions.

Nancy aims to move at each person’s pace and to offer clear tools for coping and progress. She supports people who want both short-term relief and longer-term changes in how they handle emotions, relationships, and life stressors.

How Nancy’s approaches work online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating difficulties, and anger by teaching practical strategies to shift thinking and routines.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people accept difficult feelings while clarifying personal values and taking steps toward them. It can be useful for coping with chronic illness, grief, life transitions, and ongoing stressors.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the client’s perspective leads the work. This approach supports self-exploration, building self-worth, and working through relationship or identity concerns.

Nancy treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit the situation, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clear. This collaborative stance helps tailor sessions to what actually helps you.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related schedules.