Natalia Blevins-Conner
Practical, steady support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Natalia
Natalia Blevins-Conner uses a practical, client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and parenting challenges. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and brings 23 years of experience to sessions. Her style is straightforward and respectful, focusing on each person's strengths and goals.
She emphasizes small, manageable steps so change feels doable. In sessions she listens first to understand each person’s story and priorities. Then she offers tools drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to reduce distress and shift unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing helps when people face competing goals or feel stuck about change. Natalia draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques for emotion regulation and coping skills when feelings run high. She blends these methods to match what a person needs in the moment rather than using a single fixed plan.
That makes the work practical and focused on daily life. She has worked for more than two decades in settings that shaped her calm and steady approach. People who come to her can expect clear explanations, simple skill practice, and encouragement to try what fits.
Sessions aim to build confidence in handling parenting strains, relationship tensions, or life transitions. Her practice is based in Virginia and she offers services in English. The goal is to help people regain a sense of control, repair routines, and make steady progress toward a more balanced life.
Practical approaches for online support
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths. The therapist listens with respect and helps clients shape goals that feel meaningful and doable, which is useful for parenting strains and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking big problems into smaller, actionable steps.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for tolerating strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is helpful when feelings feel overwhelming or when communication needs clearer structure.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps. Together they pick methods that match the person’s needs and preferences rather than sticking to a single model.
Online therapy brings practical benefits like flexible scheduling and fewer travel demands. Sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, which lets people use therapy around work, childcare, or busy days. These options make it easier to practice skills between meetings and keep progress moving forward.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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