About Natalie
Natalie Cunningham is an AASW social worker with eight years of clinical experience supporting people facing stress and anxiety. She concentrates on practical conversations that help clients build confidence and cope better with life’s changes. Her manner is respectful, calm and direct, and she aims to make the first steps less daunting.
Natalie creates a tailored plan for each person. Sessions focus on real moments in daily life, such as managing worry, improving communication, or rebuilding motivation after a setback.
Background and approach
She draws on techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness to teach simple skills that can be used between sessions. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and family concerns. That approach helps people notice how past connections affect present choices and responses.
It is used alongside client-centred listening to make sure the conversation fits each person’s needs. People also bring concerns such as self-esteem, coping after separation, blended family stress, chronic illness or caregiver strain. Natalie offers steady support while helping people set small, achievable goals.
She emphasises practical actions rather than abstract theory. Natalie works with the pace a person prefers, offering gentle challenge where it helps and space when it doesn’t. She supports people who want to reduce anxiety, improve relationships, or adjust to life transitions.
Taking the first step can feel hard - she helps make the path forward manageable.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and relationship work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that move a person toward the life they want, which can be useful for worry and low motivation.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a skills-based approach that looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical tools to challenge unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviours, often helping reduce anxious responses over time.
Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships shape current patterns in close relationships. It helps people identify repeating dynamics and practice safer, more connected ways of relating in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will work collaboratively to choose what fits best. Natalie will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped in the past, then adapt methods so they feel useful and realistic for the person.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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