About Nancy

I am a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, and social work professor with approximately twelve years of clinical practice experience and eight years of teaching experience.

I hold a Doctor of Social Work from the University of Southern California and a Master of Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin. My professional background includes hospice, home health, child custody evaluation, private practice, and university-level social work education.

My work has centered on helping people understand what is shaping their choices, recognize patterns that may no longer serve them, and find practical ways forward.

But professional experience is only part of my story.

I have also lived through anxiety, career changes, caregiving, loss, relationships, and starting over. Like everyone else, I have had moments when I understood something intellectually and still struggled to apply it in my own life.

That combination of professional knowledge and ordinary human experience shapes the way I write.

I am interested in the gap between knowing and doing. Why do we keep repeating patterns we understand? Why do old fears, expectations, roles, and assumptions continue influencing us long after our lives have changed? And what helps us make a different choice?

Those questions became the foundation of Your Way Forward.

My goal is simple: to make psychological ideas understandable, useful, and human.

Real. Helpful. Hopeful.