• Vocational Skills Training

    Assistance with school and job applications

  • Coping with becoming an “empty nester”

    Phase of Life Issues

  • Effective Communication Skills

    Community Integration

    Executive Functioning Health

    Employment and Education Assistance

    Planning and Organizational Skills

  • Natalie is trained by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) in Module 1-Multidimensional Assessments

  • Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, PTSD, Trauma related disorders

  • Depressive Disorders

    Bipolar I & II Disorder

  • Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder

  • Natalie most recently held the position as the Program Director at California OnTrack. She has worked closely with the medical director and clinical director, developing the foundational materials that are used in California OnTrack’s Intensive Coordinated Specialty Care for Psychosis Program. Natalie is trained in Metacognitive training for psychosis and obtains extensive training, knowledge, and experience in the area of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.

  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) involves understanding the relationships between our thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Furthermore, CBT explores the different types of cognitive distortions individuals may experiences in addition to learning how to reframe unhelpful and reduce maladaptive coping skills.

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is based on the dialectic of acceptance and change. DBT consists of four modules: Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. These modules help individuals learn skills to act mindfully and effectively when dysregulated, sit with emotions rather than acting on them, accepting life and reality as is, understanding your emotional experiencing, and communicating effectively with others.

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy technique designed to help individuals process and heal from traumatic or distressing memories. Developed by psychologist Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s, EMDR primarily involves patients focusing on a traumatic memory while engaging in bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements, tapping, or auditory tones. This bilateral stimulation is thought to help reprocess the memory, reducing the emotional intensity and negative associations. Over time, patients often find that distress linked to the memory decreases, allowing for improved mental health and resilience.

    EMDR is recognized as an effective treatment for PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health conditions.

  • Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) can be used to help individuals gain insight into how people and their behaviors are correlated. ACT aims to help individuals participate in their emotional experience through acceptance and increase awareness and understand that their emotions are valid. Skills are also used to help cope effectively with distress that may arise.

  • This modality focuses on thinking about our thinking- meaning, asking ourselves what beliefs do we have about our thoughts? This targets the positive symptoms of psychosis and it helps one eliminate the mental bias. This allows individuals to view their symptoms through an alternative lens, thus removing the bias.

    Other modalities listed support those also experiences negative symptoms.

  • I offer a therapeutic modality called Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in partnership with an organization called Journey Clinical. Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a holistic modality in which ketamine is used as a complement to psychotherapy to help eligible patients experience more frequent breakthroughs and sustained improvement in symptoms. I take on the psychotherapy portion of the experience, while Journey Clinical’s medical team supports you on all medical aspects. This includes determining eligibility, developing a custom treatment plan, prescribing the medicine and monitoring outcomes.