Nathalie Contro, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for relationships and change
About Nathalie
Nathalie Contro is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who brings three years of LMFT practice in California. She frames therapy around clear goals and practical steps.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on improving coping with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and life changes. She uses plain conversation and active listening to help people name what matters to them.
Nathalie encourages small, actionable changes that make daily life feel more manageable. She works with issues such as depression, grief, substance-related concerns, and intimacy-related struggles.
Her background includes approaches that attend to attachment and personal meaning. She pairs client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts.
Dialectical skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. Nathalie also draws on Jungian ideas about symbols, dreams, and personal stories when that fits a person’s needs.
Practical tools like breathwork and guided imagery can accompany talk-based work when helpful. The aim is to blend insight with skills people can use between sessions.
She offers sessions in English and Spanish. Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling the first session.
How Nathalie’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work begins with listening and helping people name what matters. This approach focuses on the person’s perspective and uses reflection to clarify values, goals, and immediate concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and routines. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. It helps people understand intimacy, trust, and conflict so they can try new ways of relating to others.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. This collaborative plan can change over time as different skills or deeper work become useful.
Online therapy with video, phone, live chat, or text messaging offers flexibility. Video lets people work face to face when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break from work. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflection, or ongoing support without scheduling a full session. These options make it easier to sustain therapy while managing a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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