About Natalie
Natalie Kramer is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship strain. She offers support for parenting challenges, coping with life changes, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and issues with self-esteem and intimacy. Natalie writes plainly and focuses on practical tools people can use between sessions.
She uses straightforward conversation and active listening to identify what matters most to each person. Her style is warm and interactive, mixing problem-solving with emotional understanding.
Background and approach
She brings Christian counseling values to sessions when clients want that perspective. Natalie draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior techniques, emotionally focused work, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She aims to build self-awareness and to teach skills for managing mood, cravings, anger, and communication challenges.
Her background includes work in community mental health and time in the criminal justice system supporting current and former offenders. She also has experience as a teacher, speaker, trainer, and coach through the John Maxwell Team, which shapes her coaching and teaching style.
With nine years of experience and an Indiana LCSW license, Natalie focuses on helping people take concrete steps toward change. She offers tools, techniques, and a collaborative plan so people can try new strategies and track progress over time.
Using evidence-based approaches in online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It helps with anxiety, depression, addiction cravings, and building new daily routines.DBT skills teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication. These techniques are useful for managing intense feelings, impulsivity, anger, and relationship conflicts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is tracked. Clients help shape which techniques to use and when to shift focus.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging for shorter check-ins or between-session support. These options let people fit care around work, school, or family life and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English