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Dr. Natasha Cook has worked with clients struggling to manage anxiety, depression, stress, and relationships for the duration of her career. She's worked with a range of ages elementary aged children to senior citizens as well as individual, couples, and groups over the course of career. She's worked as a psychologist for nearly 20 years and recently received a certification as a professional coach. The addition of the coaching training has increased her abilities to help clients identify the source(s) of these challenges, assess the right techniques to best address the symptoms, create achievable goals, and determine the skills that will help maintain those positive changes. Her clients are often motivated to make positive improvement across multiple areas of their lives, as common themes often run across different areas of our lives. Dr. Cook also discusses being intentional in how to approach situations, allowing her clients an increased ability to consistently show up as the best version of themselves.
She typically uses evidenced based approaches such as CBT, DBT, and MI to work with a variety of mental health diagnoses in an effective way. These approaches encourage the use of techniques to assist with self soothing through effective coping skills outside of the therapy sessions which increases clients' feeling of confidence through enhanced competence. Dr. Cook approaches working with clients from the stance that they are the experts on themselves and she's a guide to help her clients become the best version of themselves. Using the strength of this working relationship, she's been able to introduce and explain psychological techniques, skills, and resources that have created significant positive impacts and led to meaningful changes within her clients' lives.
Years of Experience: 19 years
Adjustment difficulties & disorders - Support around adapting to new and/or challenging life circumstances; skill-building for improved stress management and reduction of anxiety.
Anxiety - Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder)
Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life
Life coaching - Identifying intentions and implementing strategies to build resilience and work towards one’s personal, health, or career goals
Relationship issues - Understanding one’s wants and needs in relationships; exploring patterns of interaction, addressing concerns, and strengthening satisfaction in relationships and dating
Stress management - Strengthening effective ways of coping with the stress of life and change; managing expectations of self and others
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