Nancy Truett

Nancy Truett is a nationally certified counselor and a licensed professional counselor who provides mental health services and supervision in Tennessee; her state license is listed as TN LPC 1153. She brings 23 years of experience in counseling, clinical mental health, and substance abuse treatment across diverse settings.

Her professional background includes work in agencies, private practice, K-12 schools, and college environments, as well as residential treatment settings where she has supported adolescent and adult populations. Ms. Truett has experience with adolescent male sex offenders in residential care, alternative high school students, and adults receiving residential substance abuse treatment.

As a trauma-informed clinician, she holds certification in EMDR and has earned advanced certifications in grief, loss, and trauma. She currently serves as the Director of Counseling Services at a community college and is pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Tennessee in the College of Education, focusing on adult learning within Educational Psychology and Research.

Ms. Truett earned a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee in Educational Psychology with a concentration in Community and Mental Health Counseling, and she holds a bachelor’s degree in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina. She often incorporates arts-based approaches into her counseling practice.

Her clinical and research specialties center on women, abuse, and trauma, with particular emphasis on psychological and emotional abuse. She also addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, depression, LGBT matters, family conflict, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, parenting challenges, anger management, self-esteem, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.