About Nathalie
Nathalie Contro is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings three years of clinical experience and offers help in both English and Spanish. Nathalie focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
Her sessions emphasize clear communication and building everyday tools. She uses approaches that help people notice patterns, change unhelpful thinking, and strengthen emotional connections. Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
How Nathalie works
Nathalie draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationships. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person's priorities. Cognitive behavioral strategies and dialectical skills are used when a client wants concrete steps for mood or behavior change.
Common topics she supports include addiction, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, parenting concerns, eating and sleeping struggles, and challenges around career and self-esteem. Additional focuses include caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and identity or attachment wounds. Sessions may include talking, behavioral experiments, breathwork, and imagination or dream work when helpful.
Nathalie aims to help people build habits that reduce overwhelm and improve daily relationships.
Nathalie lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Nathalie works with
The areas below are the ones Nathalie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How attachment, client-centered care, and CBT work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions help people spot repeating patterns and try small relationship changes that can reduce reactivity and build safer connection.Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities. The therapist reflects concerns, helps name feelings, and supports clients as they set their own goals and pace for change.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating problems, and stress management, and readily adapts to online exercises and between-session practice.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions suit those with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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