About Natalie
Natalie Wakeley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She works with issues like grief, intimacy struggles, parenting strain, burnout, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. Natalie favors practical work in sessions that aims for clear, usable steps toward feeling better.
She combines talking and skill-building with attention to how the body responds to stress. That means sessions may include breathing work, grounding exercises, and ways to notice physical signs of tension.
Background and approach
Natalie draws on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful thoughts and reactions. Natalie emphasizes collaboration. She develops a plan with each person she works with and adjusts that plan as needs change.
Sessions are meant to be focused and goal-oriented, with small tasks people can try between visits. Her background includes six years of clinical experience in mental health settings. Natalie brings that hands-on experience into online and remote sessions offered from Georgia.
She communicates plainly and aims to make therapy feel practical rather than vague. People who reach out can expect a blend of skills training, reflective conversation, and body-centered strategies. The aim is to reduce symptoms, improve coping, and increase a sense of control over daily life.
Natalie helps people find what works for them and build on small successes over time.
Approaches that combine skills work and body awareness
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, is a practical method that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together. It helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, focuses on building coping skills like emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication; it can help with strong emotions and relationship problems. Mindfulness-based work teaches paying attention on purpose to the present moment and can reduce reactivity to stress and improve self-awareness.Natalie takes a collaborative approach to choosing methods. She talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they pick one or two approaches to try, then adjust as progress is made. This helps ensure therapy matches the client’s needs rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet the same therapy goals. Video calls let people read nonverbal cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, written coaching, or quick skill reminders between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules while still working on meaningful change with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English