About Nathalie
Nathalie Contro is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California. She brings three years of experience working with people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, substance use concerns, and mood-related issues. She speaks English and Spanish and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Nathalie takes a straightforward, compassionate approach. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical skills for coping, communicating needs, and managing strong emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve building tools to handle day-to-day challenges and improve relationships. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive-behavioral techniques to help clients understand patterns and try new ways of relating. She also uses client-centered and dialectical behavior methods to support emotional regulation and clearer communication.
Jungian perspectives inform work with dreams, imagery, and deeper personal meaning when clients want that focus. Many people come for help with phobias, grief, trauma, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, sleep problems, or changes in career and life roles. Nathalie also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver strain, body image issues, and codependency.
She adapts strategies to each person’s situation rather than using one fixed method. Therapy sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. International clients are not accepted.
To begin, a prospective client chooses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules sessions according to therapist availability.
How attachment, CBT, and client-centered work translate online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. Online sessions can help identify patterns in how people seek closeness, set boundaries, and respond to conflict so they can try new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches clear skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, phobias, sleep issues, and low mood and adapts well to exercises done between sessions.
Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy and being heard. That approach gives space for people to reflect and make their own choices while the therapist offers supportive feedback and validation.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Nathalie will work with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, temperament, and practical needs, and she may combine approaches as those needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and varying needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice communication in real time. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging allow quick check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to keep consistent progress while fitting therapy into day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- 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 disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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