Dr. Nancy Forrest, LPC - Therapist in Pennsylvania

About Nancy

Dr. Nancy Forrest helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, relationship struggles, grief, or painful past events. She writes and talks plainly in sessions so clients can make steady progress.

Her style aims to make emotional patterns easier to see and change. Many people come for help with anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, or trouble sleeping. She brings 25 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Pennsylvania.

Background and approach

Nancy draws on Jungian ideas to look at deeper life patterns and meaning. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical ways to shift them. Her work attends to emotional and physical responses.

That can include breathing, imagery, and focused attention to feelings that show up in the body. Nancy also incorporates hypnotherapy when clients and she agree it might help move past stuck places. Sessions are straightforward and conversational.

The therapist focuses on helping clients notice repeating patterns, try new responses, and build clearer communication skills. She supports people confronting grief, trauma, identity issues, or struggles with self-esteem. Nancy is comfortable addressing adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment, infidelity, and family of origin issues.

She also offers support for sexual assault and abuse survivors and people working through post-traumatic stress. Her approach balances insight with practical steps people can use day to day.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what arises in sessions, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is useful when someone needs acceptance and clearer self-understanding.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In online sessions this can mean identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying small experiments, and developing new habits to reduce anxiety or depression.

Nancy will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit each person's needs and goals. Finding the right approach is part of the work together - she helps clients test options and adjust plans over time to match preferences and progress.

Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That makes it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, handle follow-up between appointments, and keep momentum when travel or relocation is a factor. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver consistent care while adapting tools like CBT exercises, guided imagery, and focused conversation to the online setting.

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.

Existential Therapy

Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting, eating and sleeping problems, trauma and abuse, and many related concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, and post-traumatic stress.

What is her general therapy style?

Her approach blends client-centered listening with Jungian perspective and cognitive behavioral tools. Sessions aim to clarify patterns, address feelings in the body, and practice concrete changes.

How much experience does she have?

She has 25 years of clinical experience working with a broad range of emotional and relational concerns.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Pennsylvania with license number PA LPC PC002697.

Can nonlocal or international clients work with her?

Yes, she accepts international clients and provides services across borders as part of her practice.

In what formats are sessions offered?

Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How are fees and payment handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time based on the therapist's availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 25 years
Licensed: Pennsylvania
Languages: English

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