About Nancy Anderson Counseling

Nancy Anderson, MA, CMHC, EMDR certified therapist, EMDRIA approved consultant, IFS level 1 trained therapist

Nancy received her graduate education at the University of Minnesota, completing her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology in 1989.  She completed training to work with survivors of sexual assault, mood disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and panic, and eating disorders.  During this time, she worked professionally at a women’s center, a sexual assault center, a walk in counseling center, a medical setting, and at the University of Minnesota. She learned to teach meditation, self-hypnosis, breathing, and other mind and body self-calming mechanisms in her client work.

In 1996, she responded to a personal call to bring her work into deeper territory, weaving the realm of the spiritual, the ceremonial, and the transpersonal into her counseling approach. She moved to Telluride, CO to begin studying with a Shamanic healer.  For over 10 intensive years, she studied Shamanism as a spiritual path, philosophy and healing art.  She trained in the perspective of the medicine wheel and learned ceremonial work such as cord cutting, soul retrieval, and meeting one’s power animal.   She includes being present with un-integrated aspects of the self (e.g. shadow, inner child) into traditional talk therapy.  She doesn’t shy away from strong feelings, seeking to meet these aspects, rather than try to banish them.  She can be a strong and positive companion and guide during a “dark night of the soul”. She cares passionately about whole human beings, with their vibrantly creative and healthy aspects, their wounding, and their yearning for healing and meaning.  She brings humor, deep respect, and tenderness to helping clients with the journey of self-discovery. Clients do not need to see themselves as “spiritual” in order to work with Nancy.  She meets everyone where they are, and helps with the goals and the perspective that each individual brings to therapy. 

In the last several years, she made another transition. A personal relationship brought her to Moab and she has now lived and practiced here full time since 2014. She has received additional training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), and specializes in recovery from trauma. She is an EMDR certified therapist, an EMDRIA approved consultant, and has received IFS level 1 training. She works individually with adults and offers EMDR consultation for other professionals, as well as consultation in EMDR for other professionals. She is the owner of Nancy Anderson Counseling.