Janet Nash (she/her)

ACT helps us explore how you relate to difficult thoughts, feelings, and life experiences. Rather than trying to force painful emotions away, we work on making room for what is present while clarifying what matters most to you. ACT can help you respond with more flexibility, self-compassion, and intention, so your choices are guided less by fear or avoidance and more by your values.

I have advanced training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and use it regularly in my work with clients. ACT helps clients relate differently to painful thoughts and emotions, reduce avoidance, clarify personal values, and make choices that feel more intentional. I often use ACT with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, and self-criticism.

IFS, or parts work, helps us understand the different “parts” of you that may carry fear, shame, anger, protection, grief, or old survival strategies. Instead of judging these parts, we get curious about what they are trying to do for you. This approach can help create more inner compassion, reduce self-criticism, and support healing from painful or traumatic experiences.

I have advanced training in Internal Family Systems and frequently use parts work in therapy. IFS offers a compassionate way to understand inner conflict, self-protection, shame, fear, anger, grief, and old survival strategies. Rather than pathologizing these parts, we listen for what they are trying to protect, which can support deeper self-understanding and healing.

Depression can show up as heaviness, disconnection, low motivation, grief, shame, irritability, or feeling unlike yourself. I work with clients to explore both the symptoms and the story underneath them, including loss, trauma, relationship patterns, life transitions, and self-criticism. Therapy can help create more steadiness, meaning, connection, and room to feel like yourself again.

Anxiety can feel like constant worry, overthinking, tension, people-pleasing, panic, or difficulty trusting yourself. I help clients understand anxiety not as a personal failure, but as a nervous system response that often makes sense in the context of stress, trauma, or past experiences. Together, we work on building insight, grounding, self-compassion, and more flexible ways of responding.

I work especially well with women navigating anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship stress, identity questions, caregiving roles, life transitions, and the lingering impact of difficult family experiences. Many clients come to therapy feeling responsible for everyone else while struggling to care for themselves. Our work can help you reconnect with your needs, voice, boundaries, and sense of self.

Psychodynamic therapy was a central part of my graduate training, and I have continued to deepen my understanding of how early relationships, attachment patterns, family roles, and unconscious beliefs shape present-day distress. I use a psychodynamic lens to help clients better understand recurring patterns, emotional reactions, and the ways past experiences may still be influencing current relationships and self-perception.