Nancy Lefler-Panela, LCSW
About me
I am licensed in Tennessee and California with 5 years of direct professional clinical work experience. I have an additional 6 years of experience providing supervision for staff providing clinical support for children, youth and families. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, & coping with grief and loss. I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards a change. I am here to support & empower you in that journey.
Professional experience
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Depression, Coaching, Abandonment, Adoption and foster care, Attachment issues, Codependency, Communication problems, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Drug and alcohol addiction, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Guilt and shame, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Multicultural concerns, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy and childbirth, Prejudice and discrimination, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
License information
TN LCSW 8747
CA LCSW 74610
Reviews
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Nancy is the best therapist I have encounter. She is very thoughtful. She listens and she has so much care and compassion. She has helped me tremendously and continuously through my struggles with grief She simply the best.
Written on Dec 12, 2025 after therapy with Nancy for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and sleeping disorders