Nancy Gilmer, LPCC

Nancy Gilmer is a Kentucky licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 20 years of experience in mental health and substance use work. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, panic, grief, and life changes. Nancy emphasizes a practical, collaborative relationship where clients set the pace and goals.

She uses mindfulness and values-based methods to help people manage strong emotions and find direction. Sessions focus on what matters to the person and on small, doable steps they can try between meetings. Therapy includes talking through difficult memories, building coping skills, and practicing present-moment awareness to reduce reactivity.

Nancy also supports people facing addiction, mood challenges such as bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and the strain of caregiving. She provides help around end-of-life and hospice concerns and the loneliness or isolation that can come with later life and caregiving roles. Aging and geriatric issues are among the areas she addresses.

Her approach combines acceptance and commitment ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral techniques. She welcomes spiritual questions and life-purpose work as part of longer conversations about meaning and values. Nancy frames therapy as a partnership and encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.

People who want straightforward guidance, practical tools, and attention to values may find her style fits well. To begin, readers should use the site process to match and schedule a first appointment.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, life transitions, and finding direction. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and making space for the client to guide each session, which helps when someone needs a calm place to talk through difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which can be especially helpful for anxiety, mood issues, and coping skills.

Nancy treats finding the right approach as a shared process. She will work with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The early sessions often prioritize building trust, identifying values, and choosing a few focused goals to work on together.

Confirm the current online session options before booking, since specific formats are not listed in this profile. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people maintain continuity of care when location changes, and supports work on mindfulness, behavioral experiments, and values-based actions between sessions.