About Nathaniel
Nathaniel 'Nathan' Reed is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, people-centered therapy to help clients handle big life challenges. He blends straightforward skills with thoughtful listening so people can make clearer choices. Nathan has 14 years of experience and practices in Indiana as an LCSW and LCSW-C, and he speaks English.
Nathan focuses on relationship struggles, career pressures, and major life changes. He helps people dealing with depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, grief, and trauma.
How Nathaniel works
He also supports concerns around sexual identity, intimacy, body image, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. In sessions he uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. That means conversations mix noticing what matters, building practical skills, and looking at patterns that get in the way of making changes.
Sessions aim to be direct and useful from week to week. Nathan works with additional issues such as abandonment and attachment wounds, blended family dynamics, caregiving stress, chronic illness, codependency, and communication problems. He also addresses topics related to kink and alternative sexual culture in a nonjudgmental way.
His background supports both short-term coaching and longer therapeutic work. People can expect clear steps and tools for coping, plus time to reflect on values and choices. The approach is collaborative - goals are set together and adjusted as progress happens.
To begin, clients use the site's matching process and schedule sessions based on availability.
Nathaniel lists 15 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)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Nathaniel works with
The areas below are the ones Nathaniel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How Nathan's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what truly matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It uses simple exercises to reduce getting stuck in painful thoughts and to increase meaningful behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful thinking and improve mood and behavior. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current interactions and trust.Nathan treats finding the right approach as a team effort. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time. The plan is collaborative - try something, check how it’s going, and change course if needed.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people check in between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while still focusing on practical change.
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