Nancy Galway practices counselling and psychotherapy in Lancaster Ontario and serves Cornwall, the SDG counties and western Quebec. She is registered in Ontario and enjoys providing services online.  Nancy has a Master of Social Work degree (MSW), is Registered Social Worker (RSW), is a member of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Services Workers (OCSWSSW) and the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW). In addition, Nancy has training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprogramming and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is also a trained yoga teacher and uses her training and background in yoga and meditation to add a relaxing component to her sessions.

Nancy has over 25 years’ experience in the human services field and boasts a varied background. She has spent 15 years working and living in Canada’s Artic where she feels she learnt a lot about life and being resilient.  Nancy spent most of those years helping small communities cope with trauma and grief, often acting as a front-line responder as well as follow up clinical care.

A big part of her career was in spent in corrections in youth facilities and as an adult parole officer, as well as family services, long term care, elder abuse, children’s grief, sexual abuse agencies, walk in counselling clinics and with a mobile crisis team.

Nancy feels drawn to working with individuals who struggle with anxiety, suicidal ideation, depression and PTSD as a result of a trauma, or traumas that they have experienced in their life.