Hi! I’m Natalie, a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. I received my Masters from Antioch University, Los Angeles and have been practicing for 7 years. My main focus is helping adults from the age ranges of 18-elder struggling with symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, life changes, and feeling stuck/grief become the best versions of themselves.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first couple of sessions, I’ll take the time to get a clear understanding of your symptoms, your challenges, your history and what it is you want for yourself. In a process we work on together we figure out a treatment and objectives towards your desired outcome.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My approach in therapy is holistic. I'm a huge advocate of my clients and I follow their guidance, fully believing in them and their abilities. I truly believe in the ancient wisdom and knowing that our bodies and soul can heal. I look at the bigger picture of your life. Using the most effective interventions and modalities. We will examine your thoughts; increasing self-compassion, renegotiate difficult moods, poor habits and patterns-gently allowing to manifest a more fulfilling and joyful life.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I enjoy working with adults in all age ranges. I have experience with young professionals, students, elders, mothers, and many other adults who are in different life stages in which require a different attunement and lenses of understanding towards their goals and needs.
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Compassion Focused
We are all way too familiar with the perpetual loop of negative self-talk and an inner dialogue that is not very kind. We often fall into patterns of toxic shame, self-criticism and self-loathing. We've all been there! With compassion focused therapy I help confront toxic shame head on and address it with love and care. It's only once we integrate shame and hold it with patience and love that we can achieve what we want for ourselves and heal.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
When you are feeling depressed and/or anxious and when there is trauma in the nervous system, it's challenging to understand how we are feeling and thinking. We might not know our needs and how to set healthy boundaries with ourselves and others. We often think "This is it. I'm stuck. I'm broken." But that couldn't be further from the truth. Alongside with compassion focus, I also integrate the 4 A's the come with ACT therapy which is Awareness. Acceptance. Action. Adherence. When we feel confident in being able to keep tiny promises to ourselves that are manageable and lead us to success and feeling good about ourselves, we slowly learn to start trusting ourselves again and begin to build a healthier relationship with our mind and body.
Attachment-based
Our earliest attachment figures, being our primary caregivers such as mother and father or any other figure that was our main caregiver as a baby will be the fundamental teachings of how we learned to relate to others in the world. Do you ever wonder why someone would want to work things out right away during a fight (known to be the anxious attachment style) while your partner might need space and shut down? (known to be the avoidant attachment style). Have you ever wondered why some feelings and thoughts only come up during relationships but not when you are with yourself? This is all related to attachment and how we relate to others in the world. I incorporate attachment-based therapy to help you also understand yourself better, your triggers from the childhood, the relationship you had with your caregivers as a baby and how it is impacting your relationships today. You have the ability to change the quality of your relationships at any given time and attract and be the person you truly want to be!
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic is important because it allows us in session to get a better understanding of early experiences in childhood. How they formed our beliefs systems and how trauma was stored in the body. Sometimes it's not easy to look at our pasts, but when done so gently and slowly (with lots of care), it gives us permission to also forgive and let go not just our past experiences but ourselves and others.
Trauma Informed Care
In talk therapy, it is common to not address our bodies and the nervous system. We might try to 'talk' our way through our problems. But even if you’ve tried time and time again to step towards your desired goals by trying to think and talk through them only to ultimately end up feeling a sense of unease or not feeling safe, a strong urge to control everything. You feel this grip of anxiety, fear, or panic that you don't understand. Waves of depression, bouts of dissociation, or waves of apathy, a persistent feeling of being stuck or frozen in place, and the inability to move forward is a direct result of your nervous system. When we work through that and get relief, new ways of living that never felt like a possibility suddenly become available to you!