About Natalie
Natalie Eden is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what is most pressing for each person. Her style aims to help people make clearer decisions and find practical ways forward.
She brings 13 years of clinical experience across outpatient and independent practice settings. That background includes work in an outpatient behavioral health clinic in Chicago where she offered individual and group sessions to people facing varied emotional challenges.
Background and approach
Her training includes substantial coursework in addictions and motivational interviewing. Natalie uses approaches that center the person and focus on thought patterns and meaning. In conversation she mixes client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral work and motivational interviewing to build goals that feel doable.
She also draws on existential ideas about meaning when people face major life changes or losses. Her academic path includes a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and additional graduate study in business and communications. She holds licenses as an LCPC in Illinois and an LPC in Pennsylvania.
These are the credentials she lists. Natalie aims to restore strengths and dignity while helping people practice new coping skills. Outside of work she enjoys travel, writing, genealogy, and art.
She lives in Illinois with her family and brings a straightforward, practical approach to sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and meeting each person where they are. It helps people feel heard and supported while they consider their next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. These methods often suit people managing stress, worry, sleep troubles, or mood shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Natalie will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time so sessions remain useful and practical rather than academic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls work well for full sessions that include face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or being on camera is an issue. Live chat or text-based messaging is helpful for shorter check-ins, day-to-day coaching, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Pennsylvania, California
- Languages
- English
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