About Natalie
Natalie Quashie is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing relationship strains, family conflict, low self-esteem, and depression. Her approach is grounded in respect, sensitivity, and calm support.
Natalie focuses on practical conversation and clear goals. Sessions aim to identify patterns that keep problems going and to try small changes that make daily life easier. She adapts the pace and plan to each person's needs rather than using one fixed method.
Background and approach
Parents and caregivers often come with worn-down energy or guilt. Natalie listens for what’s most urgent, then helps prioritize what can change now versus what needs more time. She also helps people who are dealing with adoption or foster care matters, attachment questions, and blended family issues.
People who feel stuck by shame, abandonment, or family-of-origin problems get help naming those feelings and finding ways to respond differently. Conversations about body image, commitment worries, or control issues are handled with straightforward, nonjudgmental questions. Natalie believes beginning therapy is a brave step.
She will work together with each person to build a plan that fits their day-to-day life. Over time the aim is clearer choices, fewer overwhelming moments, and more moments that feel manageable.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Many people find cognitive-focused techniques useful for anxiety and negative self-talk. These methods help identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence so worry has less power. Behavioral strategies can accompany this work by adding small steps to rebuild confidence and reduce avoidance.Attachment-informed approaches are also often used to address relationship and family patterns. This work focuses on how early connections affect trust and communication now, and it helps people try new ways of relating that feel safer and more predictable.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and pick methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat is good for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people choose what works best for their routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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