Nancy Cechvala
Calm, practical support for parents
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nancy
Nancy Cechvala is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for parents and families facing stressful life moments. Nancy listens closely and aims to make conversations feel straightforward and useful for day-to-day parenting concerns.
She uses plain, goal-focused methods to address things like anxiety, stress, grief, and trouble sleeping. Nancy also works with issues tied to trauma and abuse, ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, and caregiving stress.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people through relationship and family problems, change, and loss. Nancy blends familiar, evidence-based practices with a warm, client-centered stance. That means sessions are led by the client's needs and paced to what feels doable.
She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to shift thoughts and behaviors, emotionally-focused techniques to address strong feelings, and mindfulness skills to reduce tension and improve focus. Sessions can use video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit busy schedules. Fees vary with location and availability and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not accepted. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist's availability. Nancy aims to make the start straightforward so families can get timely, practical support.
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's priorities first. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, creating a plan that fits daily life and parenting needs. This approach helps when the goal is clearer communication and practical problem solving.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often includes simple exercises to practice between sessions and can help with anxiety, sleep problems, mood, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, targets strong emotions and the ways they affect relationships and family patterns, helping people notice and shift painful interaction cycles.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what is working. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to parenting challenges, trauma recovery, or day-to-day stress management.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so families can fit therapy into busy routines. These options make it easier to meet from home, coordinate around childcare, and keep support consistent when life is complicated.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
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