Nancy Truett, LPC

Nancy Truett is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - with 23 years of clinical experience in counseling and substance use treatment. She works in Tennessee and has a background in college counseling and community mental health. Nancy often supports people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and trauma-related concerns.

Her work history spans agency settings, private practice, K-12 schools, and college counseling. She has experience with adults in residential substance treatment and with high school populations in alternative settings. She currently directs counseling services at a community college and is a doctoral candidate in educational psychology and adult learning.

Nancy trained at the University of Tennessee, earning a master's degree in Educational Psychology with a focus on Community and Mental Health Counseling. She also holds a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina and uses arts-based methods when they fit a person's goals.

Her clinical interests include emotional and psychological abuse and trauma, and she focuses on women's experiences in those areas. She also works with people grappling with mood concerns, eating and food-related issues, ADHD, relationship problems, parenting strain, and career stress. Additional areas she addresses include codependency, commitment and control issues, divorce and separation, and substance-related problems.

In sessions she uses a mix of approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR, motivational interviewing, and narrative methods. She aims to help people name patterns, try small changes, and practice new ways of coping that fit everyday life.

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