About Nathanial
Dr. Nathanial Hinerman is a California-licensed LMFT with 25 years of clinical experience who helps people manage stress and anxiety. He offers straightforward support for depression, grief, relationship strain, addictions, self-esteem, and life changes.
He also addresses issues like sleeping problems, anger, career stress, and ADHD concerns. Dr. Hinerman uses practical tools in sessions.
He blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance and mindfulness practices. He also draws on attachment-informed thinking to help people understand patterns in close relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and focused on real-life change. Clients can expect skills they can use between sessions. These include emotion regulation strategies, grounding and breathing exercises, and small behavioral experiments to reduce avoidance.
He also teaches meditation and mindfulness when that fits a person's goals. His background includes long study in psychology and related fields alongside clinical practice. He named influences from contemporary clinical writers and older wisdom traditions, and he weaves those perspectives into treatment in practical ways.
He describes therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s experience guides the path. Outside of clinical work he is a single parent and a distance runner. He speaks English and works with people from varied backgrounds, including those whose lives draw public attention.
He encourages people to take the first step when they feel ready.
How approaches and online work come together
Dr. Hinerman commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to you and building small actions that match those values while learning to tolerate hard feelings. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches step-by-step changes to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns.He also brings attachment-informed ideas into sessions to help people notice and change patterns that affect close relationships. That approach helps when worries show up as repeated responses to trust, closeness, or separation. Choosing which approaches to use is collaborative - he works with each person to match methods to goals and preferences rather than following a single script.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is useful for a full conversation with visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options allow flexibility for people juggling work, family, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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