About Natalie
Natalie Dukes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks English and practices from Florida. Natalie focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more capable in daily life.
Natalie uses straightforward conversation to help clients identify what is causing worry and stress. She draws on client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas to create clear, doable changes.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelming thoughts and build skills for handling difficult moments. Her approach is collaborative. Natalie listens first, then works with each person to set realistic goals.
She uses techniques from emotionally-focused work and mindfulness to strengthen emotional awareness and improve relationships when those are a concern. Across 25 years, Natalie has supported people facing a wide range of issues including depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting strain, and challenges with self-esteem or body image. She also addresses specific concerns like ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and eating-related difficulties.
Natalie offers a mix of practical strategies and reflective conversation. She helps people practice new behaviors, reframe difficult thoughts, and repair communication with others. If someone wants a steady, experienced counselor who focuses on coping skills and emotional growth, Natalie aims to be a thoughtful guide through that process.
Therapeutic methods and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a trusting space where people direct the pace and topics of sessions. It helps when someone wants to be heard and make changes at their own speed. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name feelings and repair strained interactions; it is useful for those whose relationships or emotional responses cause distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that match a person's needs. That collaborative process means techniques can be adapted over time if something is not working as hoped.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video lets people read tone and facial cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to attend regular sessions from different locations and at varied times.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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