About Natalie
Natalie Ihli is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado with 17 years of experience. She focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Natalie aims to make the first steps feel manageable and clear for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
Natalie takes a direct and compassionate approach in sessions. She listens closely and helps each person build a plan that fits their life and goals.
How Natalie works
Conversations are practical and paced to what feels doable for the individual. Her background includes many years supporting people living with disabilities and those facing chronic health challenges. That experience informs how she adapts strategies to daily routines and real-world limits.
She pays attention to how physical health, caregiving responsibilities, and long-term stress affect mood and functioning. Natalie works with issues tied to attachment, abandonment, and commitment struggles. She also supports people dealing with body image concerns, control issues, dissociation, and the emotional impact of divorce or separation.
Sessions address communication problems, caregiver stress, and the emotional effects of aging and loss. Sessions are built around the client’s priorities and tolerance for change. The emphasis is on skills that can be used between meetings, steady progress, and practical ways to cope with setbacks.
Her style is steady, respectful, and focused on realistic steps forward.
What Natalie works with
The areas below are the ones Natalie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building useful skills. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method is useful for stress, depression, and worry.Another approach emphasizes understanding attachment and relationship patterns. It helps people notice how past experiences shape current reactions and then practice different ways of relating and communicating. This can be helpful for relationship concerns, commitment issues, and fears of abandonment.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Natalie works together with each person to decide which strategies fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps and what doesn’t.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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