About Natalie
Natalie Bouffard-Lewis brings a practical, collaborative approach to therapy. She combines talk-based work with creative perspective-taking to help people sort through stress, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, anxiety, and grief. Natalie holds licenses as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas.
Natalie frames therapy as a joint process. She helps people set clear goals and then maps small, achievable steps toward them. Sessions focus on changing unhelpful patterns, improving communication, and building day-to-day coping skills.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools so people can notice progress between meetings. Her clinical work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift thoughts and behaviors. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness and narrative methods are woven in to help people notice stories they tell themselves and to try new ways of relating to those stories. Many clients bring concerns about trauma, family of origin issues, attachment and abandonment, codependency, or the stress of caregiving and blended family life.
Natalie addresses intimacy issues, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem with concrete strategies and relational focus. She also works with people facing job stress, compassion fatigue, and major life transitions. With ten years of experience, Natalie aims to create an empathetic, nonjudgmental space.
She listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people test new behaviors outside the therapy hour. Her practical, steady style is designed to help people move toward clearer thinking and better daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online work
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change relationship patterns. It uses practical exercises and real-world practice to create visible shifts in daily life. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, adds concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress without making things worse. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental noticing to reduce reactivity and improve concentration and sleep.Natalie approaches treatment as a collaborative process. She will work with a person to choose which methods fit best for their goals and comfort level. That means trying strategies together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed rather than sticking to one set routine.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video visits let people use visual cues for relationship work and richer conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief skill coaching, between-session support, or for people who prefer typing to talking. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English