About Natalia
Dr. Natalia Rivera uses a practical, collaborative approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker with experience in military and community settings, and she writes and speaks plainly in session to make therapy easy to follow.
Her style is warm and direct. She combines cognitive behavioral tools with client-centered listening to help people notice patterns and try small changes. Sessions often include goal setting, skill practice, and regular check-ins to see what is working.
Background and approach
Rivera has 13 years of professional experience and worked extensively with trauma-related concerns during military service. That background informs how she supports people who are dealing with grief, anger, sleeping problems, or difficult memories. She is comfortable addressing addictive behaviors, first responder issues, and challenges that follow natural or human-caused disasters.
She also helps with parenting stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and difficulties with communication or control. Topics like emptiness, guilt, shame, and finding life purpose are part of her work as well. Some clients discuss impulsivity, isolation, or midlife transitions in sessions.
Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Dr. Rivera practices in Georgia and conducts therapy in English.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session once the Start Therapy button is used.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying what matters most and taking small steps toward those values, which can reduce avoidance and worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and behavior experiments to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood and sleep. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for distressing memories; it involves structured processing of troubling memories and can ease the emotional charge those memories carry.Finding the right approach is a process and happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences, then recommend strategies and adjust them over time. Decisions about which methods to use are collaborative and revisited as progress is tracked.
Online therapy lets people meet by video or phone, and also offers live chat or text-based messaging for brief check-ins or ongoing support. Video calls allow for face-to-face work and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a more personal voice conversation fits better. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, homework prompts, or when a written note is preferable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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