About Natalie
Natalie Bouffard-Lewis is a licensed therapist in Texas who brings a practical, body-aware approach to therapy. She uses somatic ideas alongside talk therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship struggles. Natalie holds both LMFT and LPC credentials and draws on ten years of clinical experience to guide sessions.
Her sessions focus on clear goals and usable strategies. She works with people facing parenting pressures, career stress, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, and identity-related concerns including LGBT issues.
Background and approach
Natalie also helps with trauma and abuse, attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, and issues that arise from divorce or blended family dynamics. Natalie combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools with mindfulness and narrative approaches. She pays attention to how the body holds stress and teaches ways to notice and shift those sensations.
That combination helps clients break repeating patterns and build better coping skills. Therapy with Natalie is practical and collaborative. She helps clients set small achievable steps and tracks progress over time.
Sessions often include breathing, grounding, thought work, and reframing the stories people tell themselves. People who want a steady, approachable guide tend to do well with her style. Natalie keeps language plain and focuses on what changes feel possible in everyday life.
She aims to help people find clearer direction and regain a sense of control. Background and approach: Natalie earned licensure as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT and as a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC and has practiced for ten years in Texas.
In her work she emphasizes concrete tools for managing anger, depression, ADHD symptoms, intimacy concerns, and family of origin issues. She uses narrative techniques to reframe past events, CBT to challenge unhelpful thoughts, DBT skills for emotion regulation, and mindfulness to build present-moment awareness. Somatic awareness is woven into sessions to help people notice bodily signals tied to anxiety or trauma.
The process is collaborative: clients and Natalie identify goals, try strategies, and adjust plans based on what helps. Practical steps and steady support are central to her method.
How somatic and skills-based approaches work online
Somatic awareness helps people notice how stress lives in the body. Online sessions can include simple practices to track breathing, tension, and grounding sensations while talking through what they mean. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood; that work translates to exercises and homework that fit daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try first based on their goals, symptoms, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time so techniques match what actually helps in everyday situations.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. That range makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work during life transitions, and practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide body-based exercises, thought work, and mindfulness practices using these formats, keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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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