Nan Franks, LPCC, LICDC-CS, GAMB, AFC, is a behavioral health clinician, trainer, and community leader with more than 40 years of experience supporting individuals and families through addiction, grief, trauma, and financial recovery. Her work brings together deep clinical expertise in problem gambling, substance use, family systems, and affected others, along with the grounded compassion that comes from lived experience.
She has served on the Warm Transfer Initiative with the Ohio Problem Gambling Helpline since 2020 and is a board member of the Problem Gambling Coalition of Southwest Ohio, where she helps strengthen community responses to gambling-related harm.