About Nanci
Nanci Jacobs helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, mood disorders, relationship and intimacy concerns, and struggles related to trauma or identity. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, career stress, ADHD, self-esteem issues, and anger.
Background and approach
Nanci draws on a decade of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist in California to walk alongside clients during difficult changes. Nanci views each person as the expert on their own life.
She focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Conversations aim to name what feels hard, try small strategies, and notice what shifts.
The tone is direct and supportive, with space to process difficult feelings. Her work often centers on rebuilding trust with oneself after trauma, addressing abandonment or attachment wounds, and improving communication.
She helps people explore how mood concerns like bipolar disorder or disruptive mood dysregulation affect daily routines and relationships. Discussions also cover sexual assault, gender identity, and living with chronic illness when those issues are present.
Nanci emphasizes real-world skills for coping with strong emotions, reducing reactivity, and making gradual behavior changes. She helps clients identify patterns that get in the way of goals and practices ways to respond differently.
Coaching-style check-ins are used when goals are practical and task-oriented. Sessions can include short-term problem focus or longer work on deeper themes depending on what the person wants.
Nanci’s approach aims to combine respect for each person’s strengths with clear, usable tools to make life more manageable and meaningful.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Many clients benefit from targeted, evidence-based techniques that focus on thought patterns, emotional regulation, and behavior change. Cognitive approaches help people identify unhelpful thinking styles and test new ways of responding to stress and anxiety. These methods are useful for worry, low mood, and relationship stress.Skills-based emotion regulation work teaches concrete tools to manage strong feelings and reduce reactivity. This is often helpful for trauma responses, impulse control, anger, and mood swings. Practical behavior-focused strategies support change by breaking goals into small steps and tracking progress between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to send updates between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, family, and health requirements.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English