Nancy Forrest, Doctor of Psychology, PA

Licensed

Online Counseling

(75 reviews)

PsyD Dr. Nancy Forrest

Provides online counseling through BetterHelp

Mental health conditions are real, common and treatable.

And recovery is possible.

Dr. Nancy Forrest is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional who specializes in affordable online therapy offered through our partner, BetterHelp.

More about me

Licensing: PsyD Years in Practice: 25 State: Pennsylvania

I use eclectic therapy techniques from a Jungian perspective. I specialize in healing patterns of trauma and hurt relationships in couples, the work place, family issues or personal issues with the self. My approach is holistic with attention on the physical and spiritual as well as the emotional.

About online counseling

Online counseling allows you to receive care from an online mental health practitioner via phone, video chat, or instant messaging. It is convenient for those who may have trouble getting to or would prefer not to have in-person therapy appointments. Starting at $65 per week, online counseling is generally more affordable than in-person counseling. A study by researchers at University of California, Berkeley found that online counseling can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy while being more convenient, affordable, and accessible.

Issues: Stress Anxiety Relationship issues Trauma and abuse Intimacy-related issues LGBT Family conflicts Grief Eating disorders Sleeping disorders Parenting issues Anger management Self esteem Career difficulties Bipolar disorder Depression Coping with life changes
Languages Spoken: English

Services offered

Professional, confidential, and judgment-free

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Dr Forrest and I have had two sessions so far. I feel that she is getting to know me well, and she has offered timely and helpful suggestions about how to deal with the issues in front of me. I expect that as our relationship continues, she will continue to provide helpful support and insights.

I've been seeing Dr Forrest for close to two years now and could not recommend her more. She's wise, compassionate, passionate and listens to all my needs and concerns while offering grounded and sensical day to day advice to live by. I went through a very difficult time during lock down where my entire life fell apart and she's been there the entire time helping guide me to rebuild everything. I ended up having to use her as a professional testimony for my custody case and I was moved how she went to bat for me in the eyes of the court. My lawyer still brings up how much she liked her. I will always be grateful for her support and am a better and stronger person for having her in my life. I look forward to our weekly chats. We often talk about off the wall obscure philosophies and I have a blast exploring just how wide open her creative mind is. She's like a mother I wish I had growing up.

Dr Forrest is straightforward, clear, gives excellent examples and is a really talented and professional therapist. I appreciate her ability to cut to the root of the issue and address it with me in a way that’s digestible and actionable. I have had many therapists, and highly recommend Dr Forrest if you really want to dig into issues and start to heal.

I appreciate her no nonsense approach to life. She's gives it straight and that's what I need in my life. Thanks Dr Forrest!

Dr Forrest is spectacular.

I used the service primarily through online chat. I found her to be very helpful and practical, she got me through the storm and helped me see more clearly.

Dr. Forrest and I are a perfect match! I feel like better help has nailed the matching algorithm for therapy.

Dr. Forrest is a wonderful balance of challenging and validating. She is empathetic without being accommodating, and she delves right into the root of issues without blanketing things. I’ve found my time with her to be incredibly helpful.

Dr Forrest is a phenomenal human being. Kind, caring and practical, she's exactly what I needed for my healing journey.

I feel better after talking with Dr. Forrest on anything. She is very professional and gets me to see the world more clearly and better. Thank you!

It was very easy and natural to open up with Dr. Forrest, Truly an impeccable person.

Dr Forrest is an incredible human and phenomenal therapist.

Dr. Forrest has quickly identified issues that I have never thought of. She connected the dots of my life and made sense of it all while guiding me to become more aware and providing tools to improve myself.

I really like dr. Forrest I was just about to quit BH when I got matched with her and decided to extend my subscription. She advocates for me living my life richly and challenging thought patterns that I don’t like in myself without being tone deaf to the realities of the environment I grew up in, and the subsequent circumstances, family dynamics, self relationship that developed due to it.

Dr. Forrest is easy to talk to. There is an openness about her, and she is full of insights. I am learning and growing with each and every message we have. I think she has the intelligence and the heart to prompt introspection and self-inquiry.

Dr. Forrest supports, encourages and validates my healing journey. She knows when to push and when to let me figure it out on my own by providing a safe space for me to have a voice.

Dr. Forrest is amazing. If you have trauma, I highly recommend her to help you.

She’s very helpful in parsing through every thing that is addressed. I’m glad I found her on BetterHelp!

Dr Forest has been a fantastic support and very intuitive. I would highly recommend her to anyone.

I've communicated with Dr. Forrest via chats and live phone calls. I find her to be very insightful and caring. I take notes during our live talk sessions, and have referred back to those notes several times. She also asks great questions via chat that cause me to slow down and really think about my situation, how I am feeling. and what's important.

Nancy was really great. Helped me work out some issues I had and really got to some inner threads I didn't know I had. Was helpful even when I was aloof.

Dr. Forrest intuitively knows what I need, when I need it and how I need to hear it. Her guidance and compassion is so incredibly valuable to me.

So far my experience with Dr. Forrest has been great! She is very helpful and understands my relationship with my partner. I am very happy with our progress thus far and I always look forward to our next session.

Dr. Forrest listens and gives honest advice. She's great!

She’s wonderful and really understanding !

Dr. Forrest helped me gain insight with her fresh perspectives . She is patient and kind an always checks up on me when I haven’t checked in for a few days. I will always be grateful to her as she helped me pull through some tough moments. I would recommend her to my friends who is new to counseling.

Nancy is a very good listener, is very knowledgeable and has an extensive life experience, which made our sessions very comfortable and productive. She helped me look at issues that worried me from a different angle, which really put things in perspective for me and made me more confident in dealing with them. Thank you so much, Nancy!

I’ve learned some very valuable insights and skills from Dr. Forrest. I enjoy her perspective and the actionable tasks she gives me to help fight my anxiety. Would definitely recommend her to others!

I have been working with Dr. Forrest for a few months now and have really worked through a lot of things that I’d been struggling with for some time. I’ve made many changes for the better using her insight and having that dialogue that causes me to reflect. She responds quickly and checks in with me regularly.

She’s great. She checks up on me and has given excellent advice.

Dr. Forest is very straight forward and will help you focus in on addressing your issues. She is incredibly helpful

Dr. Forrest really has a way of making you feel understood and appreciated. She puts a great deal of thought into her responses and applies life experience examples to relate.

Nancy is great, supportive but at the same time straightforward and honest. She has really helped me think of things differently and she’s always hear to listen.

Dr. Forrest is a great therapist. She is caring and insightful and has played a huge part in my growth as a person. I would recommend.

Working with Dr. Forrest I have found both an outlet for frustration with character building tips and advice as well as someone who understands I seek a better self for me and for my future marriage. She has been excellent in giving me advice, practices, and analysis of my own thoughts and behaviors.

It is a great sounding board when you feel lost, stuck and not knowing what to do. She makes a neutral viewpoint and helps greatly.

Only a few sessions in but really feel like she is addressing my concerns and helping me focus on the right things to fix my own toxic traits

Dr. Forrest has been amazing. She has really helped me put things (good and bad) into perspective and to recognise the impact of trauma and how my perceptions shape my experience of life. And that’s after only 2 weeks! I’m excited to see what’s next!

I am new to this and have gone through quite the bit in my life which I never received counseling for, so after making the choice to get help I was matched with Dr. Forrest and I couldn't be happier she has helped me improve in just a short amount of time and I can't wait to see what lays ahead.

I am very thankful for Dr Forrest and she's been very life changing for me. She definitely helped me to see the strength and potential I was capable of and I'm growing more every day.

She is great. Honest and upfront without beating around the bush

Dr Forrest has an amazing ability to hone in on issues, link together the underlying causes and strategize a plan for addressing everything. I’ve been so pleased by her thought provoking perspective and her dedication to helping me. She is readily available and gets back to me promptly. I would highly recommend her to others.

Dr. Forest has been very direct and informative. Thankful for her attentiveness to my "in between" appointment chats. She responds to them as promptly as can be expected, considering she has a life of her own, usually if I don't write I see that she has "checked in" to see if I did. You don't get that from a by local counselor!! Thank You Nancy!!

Dr. Forrest is amazing! She provided so much insight and advice in the short amount of time we worked together. She gave helpful, real life examples that made things much easier for me to understand. I love how honest and to the point she was with me; I needed that. I feel a lot better than I did before thanks to her guidance!

She got right to the heart of my issues and didn’t dance around the issues as other counselors have done. She is truly an independent opinion. I absolutely recommend her to anyone who is ready to hear “real truths”.

Dr. Forrest was great in helping me deal with my anxiety and depression. She was also very helpful in helping me deal with conflict resolutions within my workplace. I am much happier and better because of her advice!

Dr. Forrest listens and understands my issues. Her responses are caring yet honest and she's willing to work with me to make improvements.

She has helped me gain a lot of perspective on my life. I'm not really good at crafting reviews, but i really like her a lot, and this has been a life changing experience for the better. I'm very glad I've been matched with her.

She is very attentive and encouraging! She helps me understand where I’m going with patience and clarity.

She's the first person who ever understood me. She listens and teaches me new ways to look at things and think about things.

Dr. Forrest is amazing. She makes you stop and listen to yourself, understand your feelings. I avoided doing this but she made me feel comfortable and supported.

Dr. Forrest is perfect. I can not even come up with words. I'm am so grateful and lucky to be matched with her. My life has changed so much since speaking to her! I recommend her to anyone.

I'm fairly new to BetterHelp but I'm already really impressed with Dr. Forrest. It's clear she takes the time to actually read what I'm writing, even the super long messages. I'm very hopeful for the future.

Nancy is a wonderful counselor; very patient & knowledgable! She is friendly and kind and I would definitely recommend her to others!

Dr. Forrest is a very good, kind and open-minded counselor. I highly recommend her services.

Dr. Forrest made me feel comfortable really quickly, and it is really clear that she spends time reading what I have written and responds in a kind, aware way. She is clearly very in tune with the things I am feeling, and makes me feel accepted and as if what I am telling her is valid and OK. She has removed a lot of the stress I felt around being judged, and I now feel I am able to let her know about the things I am thinking without a second thought. It is obvious she has expertise in this area.

Dr. Forrest has been so attentive since I started. From just reading her replies to my long messages, I feel that she really cares, and like she really thinks deeply about what I say.

Dr. Forrest is able to speak candidly. Her direct nature of communication is appreciated and rare in her field.

She's honest without being too harsh. That means she's helpful. She's not just telling me what I want to hear, which means I'm not in an echo-chamber. I really appreciate how she's handled me so far and encourage this to continue in our interactions.

Excellent. Supportive when I really needed it, and kept me honest.

I highly recommend Dr. Forrest. Her style along with her openness to help me to get the heart of my issues has been an amazing journey. I look forward to continuing my work with her and find the peace in my life that I long for.

Dr. Forrest is attentive, caring, and passionate for what she is doing. I am happy that she can address problems that I have and give me directions to succeed.

I really like Dr. Forrest. She has helped me a lot. Thank you!

Dr. Forrest is a really good match for me. She is really open, charismatic and she isn't afraid of giving advice and opinions. I really like her approach and I'm really glad I found her.

Dr. Forrest has been very helpful in recognizing and pointing out the feelings that govern the crux of my problems. Her assuring presence has been of great value and the depth of her online conversations help me a lot in reflecting upon what she says.

I'm having a great experience with Dr. Forrest.

Very knowledgeable in dealing with universal symbology, dreamwork. Kind and personable.

Nancy is very friendly and kind.

Dr. Forrest is attentive - even messaging on weekends. Her patients are always on her heart and on her mind. I've seen several counselors in person in the Phoenix area. Who would have known that my perfect counselor would be such a strong advocate and invested in my success and healing through text-based messaging from across the country. Thanks to Dr. Forrest, my psychiatrist has been pleased to update my status to "stable" in our last few sessions. I would recommend Dr. Forrest to anyone looking to find their self-worth, learn to set boundaries, and be the best contribution to society you can possibly be.

I worked with Dr. Forrest for about five months. I was thoroughly impressed with her insight, compassion, intelligence and knowledge. There were some dark times for me and she was unfailingly responsive. Even in the the somewhat impersonal medium of online chat I always had strong sense of her real presence and true concern.

Dr. Forrest has helped me in so many ways. She has helped me understand many of the guilty feelings that I have felt, the things that I have done in my past, and has shown me it is ok to feel happiness, or any other emotions that I am feeling. I recommend anyone to take her, she is truly a great therapist.

Dr. Forrest has been great. She's a fantastic counselor that takes a no nonsense approach! It's only been awhile with her, but she's fantastic!

I am so happy with Better Help. Dr. Forrest was exactly who I needed and there at the perfect time. I wouldn't only recommend her, I'd say she is a savior of souls and I feel so blessed to have found her. Amazing lady!

Having a great experience with speaking with Dr. Forrest. She's prompt and thoughtful and helps me think though things and gives concrete advice.

Dr. Forrest, was very helpful with my problems, very insightful, opened my eyes to how I should look at my life and situation, I would highly recommend her to anyone. Thank you very much Dr. Forrest.

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