About Natalie
Natalie Dukes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship and family strain, grief, addiction, and mood concerns. Natalie aims to create practical plans that fit each person's daily life and values.
Natalie begins by listening closely to what matters most to the client. She then helps people name their priorities and set small, doable goals. Sessions often include skills practice, problem-solving, and time to process painful events.
Background and approach
The approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Her background spans many settings and populations across Florida. Over two decades of practice have informed a flexible style that draws from several therapy methods.
She tailors her approach to the client rather than using a single fixed method. Natalie uses techniques from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral methods, and emotionally-focused therapy, along with mindfulness and motivational interviewing. That mix lets her address symptoms like anxiety and depression as well as relational and identity concerns.
She also supports people facing trauma, grief, caregiving stress, and life transitions. Sessions may include direct skill teaching, guided reflection, and collaborative planning for changes outside therapy. Natalie emphasizes clear steps clients can try between meetings.
Her goal is to help people build coping skills they can use in everyday life.
How Natalie’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on clear listening and supporting a person's own goals. In practice she follows the client's lead, reflects what matters most, and helps people clarify next steps to try between sessions.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test practical changes. Sessions often include skill-building such as coping strategies, behavioral experiments, and planning to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Emotionally-focused therapy pays attention to emotional patterns in close relationships. It helps people notice feelings, name unmet needs, and try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries when relationships feel stuck.
Finding the right approach is part of the process; Natalie works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, comfort, and pace. She may combine approaches and adjust them over time to fit progress and changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual connection, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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