About Natalie
Natalie Dukes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and family concerns, phobias, and struggles with addiction. Her approach is practical and grounded in real-life goals.
She aims to make therapy understandable and useful for people who are worried or overwhelmed. Natalie uses several evidence-based approaches to tailor care to each person's needs. She draws on client-centered work to build trust and on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and change behavior.
Background and approach
Emotion-focused ideas help when relationships and connection are central concerns, and mindfulness practices support managing strong emotions and stress. Her background includes long clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, parenting strain, ADHD, and body image problems. That varied work informs a flexible, person-focused style rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
She pays attention to what a person wants to accomplish and adjusts the session to fit those goals. Natalie practices as a Florida LMHC. She communicates in English and offers multiple session formats to match different needs and schedules.
She commonly helps people who are navigating life changes, career stress, or complications from past loss. Therapy begins by identifying clear, short-term goals and simple steps to try between sessions. Natalie supports clients through gradual change, practical skill-building, and steady reflection so people can better manage emotions and daily challenges.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding a person's goals and experiences. It helps build a trusting relationship and makes it easier to try new ways of coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change patterns that fuel anxiety or depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on connection and communication, which can help when relationship dynamics or attachment issues are central.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels useful. That collaborative process helps identify which techniques fit a person's needs and preferences over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text messaging make quick check-ins and brief reflections possible between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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