About Nathan
Nathan Ohren is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and LGBTQ-related issues. He creates a calm setting where thoughts and feelings can be talked through without judgment.
Background and approach
Nathan emphasizes practical change and steady support so people can move toward more satisfying lives. He draws on seven years of clinical experience and uses approaches that connect thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
He pays attention to how the body and mind influence each other and encourages simple practices clients can use between sessions. He prefers video sessions at the start to build rapport, then considers other formats once communication habits are set.
Nathan avoids assigning rigid homework but works with clients to fold therapeutic work into everyday routines. That might look like short practices during the week, communication experiments, or planning small changes that add up.
His aim is to make therapy useful and relevant to daily life rather than a one-hour event. His background includes work with compassion fatigue and multicultural concerns, and he brings awareness to attachment patterns, communication struggles, and intimacy difficulties.
He also has experience related to autism, gender dysphoria, and sexual subcultures such as BDSM and kink, and addresses topics like infidelity, jealousy, and life purpose. Nathan is based in California and holds a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential.
He speaks English and welcomes questions about his way of working to help determine fit.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and for making life choices that matter. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns show up now and helps people change how they connect with others. It can be helpful for intimacy, communication problems, and long-standing trust issues.Nathan treats finding the right approach as a team effort. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they prefer to work, and then suggest approaches that fit. Over the first few sessions he checks in and adjusts the plan so it matches real needs and daily routines.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is often preferred early on to get to know one another, while phone or text can fit into a busy day or be used for shorter check-ins. These options make scheduling more flexible, reduce travel time, and let people keep continuity of care when life gets busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English