About Natalie
Natalie Baker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 18 years of mental health experience. She uses she/they pronouns and brings a warm, nonjudgmental presence to sessions. Her work is straightforward: she listens, helps people clarify goals, and partners with them to move forward.
Natalie has worked in many care settings including hospitals, residential programs, schools, partial care, and outpatient services. That range means she is comfortable supporting people with complex or overlapping concerns like anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief, and stress.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing identity and life-transition issues such as gender dysphoria, LGBT concerns, immigration stress, and caregiver strain. Her approach is primarily person-centered and humanistic. She meets people where they are and focuses on building a trusting, collaborative relationship.
Together client and therapist create clear goals and a plan that fits the client's needs and rhythm of life. Natalie integrates evidence-based methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when those tools suit a person's goals. She also draws on Gottman ideas for relationship skills and uses mindfulness to increase self-awareness and reduce reactivity.
Clients work on practical steps in session and practice skills between meetings. Natalie emphasizes understanding internal patterns, improving communication with oneself, and growing self-compassion. She aims to help people build more satisfying, manageable daily lives.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and supports action toward personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical experiments to change behavior and mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation and coping when stress or intense feelings arise.Natalie approaches choice of method as a team effort. She listens to a person's goals and preferences, explains options in plain language, and recommends techniques that fit the problem at hand. Over the first few sessions she and the client check what works and adjust the plan together.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to work on these approaches. Video calls allow real-time interaction and skill practice, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or movement is a concern, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, coaching-style feedback, or brief skill reminders between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep steady progress without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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