Healing lives.
Restoring hope.
Rebuilding stability.
Healing is not only emotional. It can affect our relationships, our finances, our confidence and our sense of the future. I help individuals, families, professionals, and organizations move toward lasting wellness through compassionate counseling, practical financial guidance, consultation, and professional education.
“You are more than the problem in front of you. Together, we can make sense of what feels tangled, identify the next right step, and build change that fits your life.”
Support for the whole person
Life rarely arrives in neat categories. Grief can change a family’s finances. Addiction can affect trust, stability, and identity. Money stress can strain relationships and recovery.
My work recognizes these connections and brings clinical experience, practical tools and grounded compassion to each conversation.
Ways we can work together
Counseling
Individual, couples and family counseling for grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship strain, life transitions and the patterns that keep people feeling stuck.
Financial Coaching
Judgment-free support for people and families facing money stress, debt, financial harm related to gambling or the difficult work of rebuilding stability.
Equine Therapy
Experiential counseling with horses, available by request and when clinically appropriate, for clients who may benefit from a different way of noticing patterns, practicing boundaries and building trust.
Consultation, training, and speaking
Practical, engaging support for behavioral health providers, community organizations, leaders and teams working with addiction, problem gambling, ethics, grief, families and recovery.
Experience with humanity
For more than four decades, Nan Franks has worked in behavioral and community health with individuals, families, professionals, and systems of care. Her approach is warm, direct, creative and collaborative. She believes insight matters most when it helps us take practical action.
A first step, without pressure
You do not need to have everything figured out before you reach out. Tell us a little about what is happening and what kind of support you are seeking. We can talk about whether our approach is a good fit and what the next step might be.
The mission
Empowering individuals and organizations to achieve excellence through expert-guided counseling and professional development in the behavioral health field.
Nan has a non-judgmental and personal approach. She has helped me, not only in business, but personally. She is skilled, knowledgeable and reasonably priced. I highly recommend her services.
Nan has the ability to see the long-term impact of the decisions she makes, and has a larger view of the world than most of us. Her decisions, while not always liked by others, are grounded in fairness and an awareness of the reality of the situation.
Nan Franks has educated and inspired me for over two decades.
Her expertise and passion for the field of alcoholism and other drug addiction is well respected by a cohort of some of the field's most distinguished and talented minds.
Nan has worked with enormous success to provide professional development opportunities for countless organizations and individuals who seek excellence in the addiction field. She has also made significant contributions to the personal healing journeys of colleagues and clients alike. Her penchant for engaging in and moving forward the body of knowledge that comprises the substance abuse treatment field is well known, admired, and serves as an outstanding professional example those she has mentored over the course of her proud career.
Over the last twenty years, there have been many times when I needed expert guidance from highly trusted counsel from Nan. I can say, without exception, her words and actions during those moments enabled positive
outcomes that improved the lives of people I work with, the people l work for, and the constituencies and client systems I serve. She has my highest recommendation and deepest admiration.
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