About Natalie
Natalie Bouffard-Lewis uses a blend of practical therapy approaches to help people manage stress and improve relationships. She brings a calm, direct style that focuses on clear goals and workable steps.
Background and approach
Natalie holds licenses as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas and applies ten years of clinical experience to everyday problems. Natalie helps people who struggle with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.
She also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Relationship concerns, intimacy issues, communication problems, and parenting stress are common topics in her sessions.
Her work often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance need attention.
Natalie also draws on mindfulness and narrative ideas to help people notice patterns and rewrite unhelpful stories they tell themselves. Sessions are practical and goal-focused.
Natalie helps clients set realistic steps and practices to try between meetings. She emphasizes collaboration so each plan fits a person's life and values.
People choose Natalie for straightforward guidance and steady support during life transitions. Her approach suits those who want hands-on tools for coping, clearer communication, and gradual change over time.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
CBT helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions focus on simple, actionable skills like breaking tasks into steps, testing negative beliefs, and building routines to reduce anxiety or depression.DBT provides tools for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. When used online, DBT techniques include practicing breathing and grounding skills, learning emotion regulation steps, and rehearsing new responses to relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Natalie collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most and what feels manageable for the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussions and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking homework, or getting support between sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while trying different approaches to find what works best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English