Hi Laura, just popping in to offer some hugs and let you know we went through/are going through the exact same as you with nap dropping. My dd will be 2.5 yrs in a few weeks and it could have been me writing your post.
Katherine also helped me so much and offered great advise and support (Hi Katherine
My dd also had a nap every day if offered and I always believed the more sleep she got the better until it started to have the opposite effect! She would have a 1 hr nap every day from roughly 2.30-3.30, however, this started to give us long chatty nw's every 2nd night or just very unsettled sleep. With Katherines help and advice I cut the nap to 20 min and offered it only every 3rd day if needed. I also brought bedtime forward and at a set time. Apart from a couple of blips along the way this is working out well for us (major jinx coming up soon because of this)
In the beginning we were getting a lot of nw's which I think were mostly due to a habit started by myself and DH of taking her into our bed when we couldn't resettle her. Got that sorted and now we're battling ew's whichresults in her waking an hr earlier than she has ever done in her life which means we are only getting 11 hrs sleep with/without a nap but working on that too so fingers crossed .
My advice is set a bt and stick with it and also reduce length of nap to 20 min as Katherine suggested above. It wount be overnight success but we will all get through this (hopefully )
Carmel x