Natalie McQuinn, LPC
Compassionate counseling grounded in body and skills-based work
About Natalie
Natalie McQuinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Missouri who helps people handle stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and mood challenges like bipolar disorder. She focuses on practical support for relationship strain, grief, self-esteem, career shifts, and life changes. Natalie approaches care in a direct and respectful way that centers each person's strengths and experiences.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process. Clients are treated as experts in their own lives while the counselor offers guidance, tools, and steady feedback.
Background and approach
Natalie uses talking, body-focused awareness, and skill-building to help people manage intense feelings and day-to-day problems. Her work draws on somatic approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered techniques, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Those methods are used to help people notice how the body and thoughts affect emotions, to learn skills for emotion regulation, and to clarify values and goals. Natalie holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. She has practiced for over 13 years in a variety of settings and brings that experience to online formats and remote session styles.
When someone reaches out, Natalie starts by listening and asking practical questions. Together they build a plan that fits the person's needs, pace, and daily life. The process is paced to match each person's comfort and goals.
How her approaches shape online therapy
Somatic work pays attention to bodily signals and movement. It helps people notice how tension, breath, and sensations relate to stress, trauma, and strong emotions and supports learning new ways to calm or regulate the body.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small steps toward those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by combining acceptance with practical behavioral choices.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental relationship. The therapist listens deeply and supports each person in finding their own answers and direction.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to figure out which tools and methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, reduce travel, and allow for different ways of communicating when people need flexibility. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic and skills-based work to remote sessions, combining conversation with guided exercises and check-ins to support steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English