Nancy Neukomm
Calm guidance for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nancy
Nancy Neukomm is an Illinois licensed professional counselor, LCPC, with 19 years of experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, and relationship and intimacy-related issues. She uses down-to-earth guidance and practical steps so people can make steady progress.
Nancy prefers short, manageable goals. Sessions often include skills for coping with mood shifts, managing anxiety, handling grief, and addressing attention or addictive behaviors. She encourages simple, doable practices between appointments to reinforce what was discussed.
Background and approach
Her background includes leading counseling programs and supervising other counselors. She has worked in a variety of community settings, including shelter programs, prison ministry work, and a local food pantry. That experience shaped her flexible, solution-minded approach.
In addition to program work, Nancy runs a independent practice and supervises an intern from Walden University. She combines practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy with emotion-focused and solution-focused methods. She also draws on mindfulness practices to help calm the mind and improve focus.
Nancy listens with respect and helps people break problems into small steps. She aims to help clients notice progress and build skills they can use day to day. Her style is warm, direct, and problem-solving oriented.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a respectful, supportive relationship. It helps when someone needs a safe place to talk and to feel heard.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into specific, workable steps.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people recognize and shift strong emotional patterns that affect relationships and closeness. It is often used when emotional connection and communication need attention.
Nancy takes a collaborative approach to choosing methods. She will help clients try approaches and decide together what fits best based on needs, goals, and personal style. That process can include mixing skills-based CBT, emotion work, and mindfulness practices.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use short check-ins or longer sessions as needed. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review progress, and support real-life practice between sessions.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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