About Nate
Nate Porter is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. He brings nine years of experience and a down-to-earth style to sessions. He emphasizes practical steps and uses straightforward language so clients know what to expect.
Nate sees clients in Kansas and holds credentials as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - LCPC and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC. He works with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, anger, depression, ADHD, addictions, grief, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
He also supports people facing parenting stress, career transitions, and life changes. In the room he treats clients as the experts on their own lives. He looks for strengths to build on and helps people try small, concrete changes.
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, simple tools, and real-life practice between meetings. Nate also pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues, body image struggles, communication problems, and co-occurring conditions. He will talk through how past hurt or trauma connects to current patterns and help people discover new ways of relating to themselves and others.
Practical options are part of his work. People may use phone sessions, video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit therapy into busy lives. Nate helps clients set manageable steps and checks in on progress over time.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many of Nate's methods focus on practical, evidence-based techniques that help people change patterns and manage symptoms. One common approach involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method helps people spot thinking habits that keep stress and worry alive and try new, more balanced thoughts instead.Another approach centers on behavior-focused strategies where small, achievable actions are used to break negative cycles. That might include activity planning for mood, step-by-step exposure to feared situations, or rehearsing communication skills to reduce relationship strain. These tactics are useful for anxiety, anger, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. Nate will work with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and daily routines. He checks in and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone calls can fit a busy day or use less bandwidth, and text or chat are useful for short check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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