Nancy Bodnar
Compassionate LCSW offering practical, evidence-based support
LCSW New Jersey
- Experience
- 18 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Nancy
Nancy Bodnar is an LCSW with 18 years of clinical practice who integrates evidence-based methods to help people address life transitions and emotional challenges.
Background and approach
Drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and psychodynamic perspectives, she guides clients through issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, and problems with self-esteem and anger. Her work also covers addiction, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and a range of family and interpersonal difficulties including attachment, abandonment, blended family dynamics, and communication problems.
Her background includes work in both independent practice and outpatient hospital settings, and she has experience supporting those affected by divorce, separation, loss, caregiver stress, dissociation, and isolation. Nancy emphasizes a collaborative, strengths-based process aimed at restoring confidence and more satisfying relationships.
She also draws on solution-focused and mindfulness techniques when helpful to build coping skills and practical strategies. Nancy practices in New Jersey and conducts sessions in English.
Her professional credential is LCSW and her New Jersey license number is NJ LCSW 44SC05514000. She offers a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes clients seeking to explore goals, develop skills, and improve day-to-day functioning.
Integrating therapeutic approaches for online care
Many clients benefit from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing practical skills to manage symptoms like anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, empathetic relationship where the therapist supports the client's own goals and self-directed growth. Mindfulness-based techniques can be used alongside these approaches to help increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity to difficult emotions, which is often helpful for trauma, grief, and coping with life changes.Nancy works collaboratively to determine which approaches feel most useful for each person. She discusses options with clients, considers their goals and preferences, and adjusts methods over time so the work remains practical and relevant to daily life.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, online therapy with Nancy provides flexibility for scheduling and continuity of care. These formats make it easier to access support from New Jersey while fitting sessions into busy routines and allowing for different ways of communicating depending on what feels most comfortable.
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Experience
18+ years
Licensed
New Jersey
Languages
English