About Natalie
Natalie Alepin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 27 years of experience. She has worked in crisis, outpatient, and inpatient settings and helps people facing a wide range of life challenges. Natalie speaks English and French and practices in Missouri.
Her style is warm and interactive. She listens with respect and aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what feels hard.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Natalie uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people notice what matters and make steady changes.
Her background includes work with people coping with chronic illness and pain, grief, addiction, mood changes, anxiety, and life transitions. She is comfortable supporting people through stress, relationship and communication problems, parenting strain, career questions, and questions about identity and meaning. Natalie can help with sleep and eating concerns as well as issues like ADHD, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue.
She is open to tailoring sessions to individual needs and preferences. Many clients seeking therapy want practical steps and steady support. Natalie focuses on clear, doable strategies and collaborative planning so people can find more ease and direction in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and build small actions that match those values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy so clients feel heard while they sort out goals and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical behavior changes to reduce distress and improve daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Natalie will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time if something isn’t helping, and she invites feedback so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for shorter check-ins, coaching-type support, or to keep momentum between longer sessions. These options support greater scheduling flexibility and let people choose what works best for their routine.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Missouri, Arizona, California
- Languages
- English, French