Natalie Byram

I am the wife of a veteran, and mother of three. I have worked with children, families and couples for over 20 years in the mental health field. I believe in empowering others, providing hope, and allowing people to move at their own pace through listening to their experiences, and allowing tgem to decide what they want and where they want to move with each appointment. I have the ability to empathize in a way others can not because I have done my own therapy work, I understand in a way others do not when working with children because I have struggled with children in a way most people cannot understand if they have not lived it; this is a shared experience, a lived and challenging experience and for me , thankfully, this is a natural gift and one that I have that has only been enhanced by training and understanding of human development. Years of working with chiIdren and families, allows me to bring additional skills to the treatment room for both adults and children so everyone can meet their goals. Graduating from USC, and working in an agency that trained their staff well has allowed me to be trained in several ways to heal emotional wounds work with couples, work with the youngest children with PCIT , and use CPT to treat PTSD. Together we can work on anything from simple life issues, ADHD, moral injury, and I work specifically work with domestic violence survivors.

Connection is a basic human necessity. I am in a profession that provides others hope, healing, and growth, in their lives. There are no words to express how meaningful it is to see as someone moves through their healing process others and being a small part of helping others in their process, but it is why I do this "work". It is always an honor for me to be a part of this journey in any way.

My approach to working with clients is, I talk to the individual; we discuss what their biggest struggle is and how they believe it is effecting their life. After this has been determined, we discuss how they want to achieve this through a discussion of the different types of modalities that would be the most effective, based on the diagnosis given (based on assessment) and we proceed with the creating of the treatment plan together using the treatment modality chosen by the client.

Once the plan is created we work together each week and monitor progress determining together how they feel, the progress the client believes they feel they are making, and how they want to proceed based on the goals they want to achieve. These check ins are completed throughout treatment along the way throughout their treatment in order to decide when sessions are stepped down to ultimately the discharge session which is always the ultimate goal.

In session, clients should expect transparency. Clients know that I am there to listen, assist, and support them in their healing. I am their coach, their cheerleader, and their biggest fan. I am honest, a bit quirky and effective. Sessions are structured, by their needs but not rigid. We are able to change direction when they want to. This is their session. Clients work at their own pace. The client will leave feeling supported with new insights, and one step further along in their healing journey, being pushed just enough when they need to be pushed along in their healing. I am always straight forward and clients will always know where they stand. I always let clients know that therapy is hard. They will not always leave happy because change and growth is hard. There are growing pains however, as with any change that growth is worth it because that bealing that happens though initially uncomfortable makes a person feels so rewarding ultimately.