About Natalie
Natalie Ihli is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado with 17 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports those facing life changes and caregivers dealing with ongoing strain.
Natalie works directly with each person to build a plan that fits their situation. Conversations are simple and practical. She focuses on what feels useful right now and on steps people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
She has a long history helping people who live with chronic illness, disability, or long-term caregiving responsibilities. That experience shapes how she adapts pacing and goals for each person. Natalie pays attention to practical barriers and daily routines that affect mental health.
Her approach emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions aim to clarify what is getting in the way and to practice different ways of coping and communicating. Parents reading this will find short, direct guidance and strategies they can apply in everyday life.
Natalie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and personalizes them to each person. Over time she helps people set clear goals, try new behaviors, and notice what changes. Her focus is steady, pragmatic support that aims to help people feel more capable and less overwhelmed.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Many of the techniques Natalie uses are evidence-based and focus on practical change. One common approach teaches skills to manage anxiety and mood by changing unhelpful thoughts and building new routines; this helps people who feel stuck by offering clear strategies to test in daily life. Another approach emphasizes behavior and coping skills for stress and depression, using small, repeatable actions to improve energy and mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Natalie will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans when something is not helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations and body language cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins and between-session support. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English