Nancy Lichtenstein
Practical support for relationship and life challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nancy
Nancy Lichtenstein is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of professional experience in California. She helps people who are struggling with addictions, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, intimacy questions, depression, grief, and other life challenges. Nancy aims to make the first step feel doable and offers steady support through that early work.
Her approach is straightforward and calm. She creates an open space where clients can talk honestly about thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the person seeking help and move at a practical, manageable pace. Nancy draws on long experience helping people untangle patterns that cause pain, including issues related to LGBTQ identity, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, career worries, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She also attends to special topics such as HIV/AIDS, infidelity, veteran and armed forces issues, and multicultural concerns. In sessions she listens, asks questions, and helps clients try different ways of coping or communicating. The work often includes checking how habits or reactions affect daily life and making small changes that add up.
Nancy supports clients through both immediate crises and longer term rebuilding. Her license is LMFT, California license number 38014. People who prefer English can work with her in that language and reach out to begin the process of matching and scheduling.
Practical approaches and flexible online care
Nancy uses evidence-based techniques that focus on change and understanding. One commonly used approach helps people identify unhelpful patterns in thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more workable actions; this method is useful for depression, anxiety, and coping with addictions. Another approach emphasizes processing traumatic experiences in small, manageable steps so that memories and reactions become easier to live with; this can help with trauma, abuse, and intense relationship hurts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nancy collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. The decision about techniques happens together, based on needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, phone sessions remove the need for travel, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and make consistent progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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