About Nathanial
Dr. Nathanial Hinerman is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience in California. He focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, self-esteem, and addictions.
He also addresses intimacy-related issues, sleeping problems, ADHD, and career or life transitions. His tone is straightforward and encouraging for someone taking a first step toward help. Dr.
Hinerman blends talking and practical skills in sessions. He listens first, then offers tools drawn from several therapeutic approaches.
How Nathanial works
Mindfulness and meditation are options he can teach when clients want them. He frames clients as experts in their own lives and looks for strengths to build on. His background includes deep study in philosophy and evolutionary psychology.
He holds the credential LMFT, which denotes licensure in California. He draws on ideas from attachment work and cognitive-behavioral strategies when they fit the situation. Sessions emphasize clear goals and manageable steps.
In therapy he uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help with values and coping, and emotion-focused or attachment-based work when relationship patterns matter. For people facing addiction or chronic stress, he offers practical strategies and relapse prevention thinking. He also teaches skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotional regulation when needed.
Dr. Hinerman describes himself as a single parent and a long-distance runner. That personal perspective informs his practical, down-to-earth approach.
He encourages people who are nervous about starting therapy to take the next step and try a short matching process to find a fit.
Nathanial lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
What Nathanial works with
The areas below are the ones Nathanial selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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 and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people clarify their values and commit to small actions that matter. It teaches practical ways to notice difficult thoughts while still moving toward meaningful goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current responses. It helps people spot repeating patterns in their connections and practices new ways of relating that reduce conflict and increase closeness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and is decided together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that match those needs in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping focus on the clinical goals.
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