About Natalie
Natalie Patton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Kentucky with 12 years of experience in mental health. She greets each person with empathy and a nonjudgmental attitude. Natalie aims to make talking about hard things feel manageable and straightforward.
She honors the courage it takes to reach out for help and listens first to understand what matters most to the individual. Her background includes work in a community mental health center, emergency room settings, and programs supporting people affected by domestic violence.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped her ability to respond to crises and complex stressors. She draws from several practical therapies to tailor sessions to a person’s needs. Natalie emphasizes compassion, respect, and curiosity in sessions.
She brings a strengths-based viewpoint and focuses on what a person can build on, not what’s missing. Conversations are guided by the client’s goals rather than a preset checklist. She uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered work to address common concerns.
Typical issues she helps with include anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, relationship strain, and ADHD. Natalie keeps language plain and practical. Sessions are about noticing what’s in the way, trying small changes, and practicing new skills in everyday life.
She aims to make therapy feel doable, whether someone comes with one specific problem or a lot to untangle.
How therapy approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify their values and take small actions toward them even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation by shifting attention to what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on identifying and naming emotions and understanding how those emotions shape close relationships and personal responses; it can help people better manage grief, relationship strain, and intense feelings.Natalie treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques together, and adjust methods as needed. Finding the best fit is part of the work rather than a one-time decision, and she balances practical tools with listening to what the client finds most helpful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people connect face to face, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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