Nancy Orlopp
Practical, respectful therapy for life and relationships
LCSW New York
- Experience
- 8 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Nancy
Nancy Orlopp is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, and life changes. She offers straightforward support for mood struggles, intimacy concerns, self-esteem issues, and the exhaustion that can come from caregiving and work.
Background and approach
Nancy uses clear, practical ways to work through problems. She listens first and then helps clients set small goals.
Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and finding steps that feel manageable in daily life. Her approach draws on several therapeutic styles.
Nancy blends client-centered work with insight-oriented conversation and skills training when helpful. She also uses tools from the Gottman Method and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address relationship patterns and emotional regulation.
Nancy brings eight years of clinical experience in New York to her practice as an LCSW, licensed clinical social worker. She has supported people navigating grief, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, and transitions such as separation or career change.
She is attentive to diverse identities and includes LGBT issues and neurodivergence among her focus areas. Nancy also works with concerns around aging, autism spectrum differences, polyamory and communication problems.
Her style is respectful and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people make steady progress. Practical needs matter in her work.
She helps clients try out new ways of talking, practice emotion regulation skills, and plan next steps between sessions so change can be sustained.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Nancy uses methods that translate well to remote work. The Gottman Method focuses on improving how people communicate and repair conflict, which often includes practicing specific conversations and skills that can be done over video or messaging. Client-centered therapy centers on listening and following the client's concerns to guide each session, so it adapts easily to talk-based formats like phone or video. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that can be introduced in sessions and practiced between meetings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nancy works with each person to identify goals and then tests what helps most, adjusting techniques if something isn’t working. She explains options, tries practical exercises, and checks in about how the approach fits the client's life and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to create flexibility. Video calls are useful for role-play and watching interaction cues, phone sessions can be easier on bandwidth, and messaging or live chat support quick check-ins or shorter progress notes. These formats let people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or times when stepping away briefly is needed.
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Experience
8+ years
Licensed in
New York
Languages
English