Natalie Cox is a Nashville-based therapist who works with adults ages 18 and up. She offers a warm, collaborative space for clients who want to better understand themselves, develop greater self-acceptance, and strengthen their relationships. Natalie works with clients to create a life that feels more connected and meaningful.
Natalie is especially interested in the parts of our experience that may be difficult to explain but continue to shape how we feel and relate to others. She helps clients look beneath familiar reactions and patterns with curiosity, compassion, and respect for the complexity of their inner lives.
Her approach is thoughtful, creative, and attentive to the connection between the mind, body, relationships, and personal history.
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How Natalie works
Natalie works from an integrative, depth-oriented perspective. Therapy with her may involve exploring how family history, earlier relationships, unconscious beliefs, and internal conflicts influence the way you experience yourself and connect with others today.
Natalie is solely focused on changing a behavior or reducing a symptom. Instead, she helps clients become curious about what may be happening beneath the surface. Together, she and her clients may explore where a pattern began, how it once helped, and whether it continues to serve the client’s life and relationships.
Her work draws from psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy, family systems, somatic approaches, and Jungian psychology. She also welcomes clients’ dreams into therapy. She believes they offer a meaningful way to understand emotions, conflicts, or parts of the self that may be difficult to access directly.
Drawing from her former career as a professional artist, Natalie may also incorporate expressive art exercises when clients are interested. Artistic experience is never required. Creative work can offer another way to explore feelings, memories, and experiences that may not yet have clear words.
Natalie’s work may help clients:
- Understand recurring emotional and relationship patterns
- Develop greater self-awareness and self-acceptance
- Process trauma and painful past experiences
- Feel more connected to their bodies and emotions
- Strengthen communication and emotional intimacy
- Explore identity, meaning, spirituality, or purpose
- Recover from burnout and reconnect with what matters
- Develop a more compassionate relationship with themselves
Natalie tailors the work to each client. Some sessions may be reflective and exploratory, while others may include body awareness, trauma processing, dream exploration, or creative expression.
Areas of focus
Natalie supports adults navigating:
- Anxiety and depression
- Relationship, communication, and attachment concerns
- Life transitions
- Divorce and relationship endings
- Burnout and work-life imbalance
- Complex trauma
- Religious trauma and adverse religious experiences
- Recovery from high-control or fundamentalist environments
- Low self-worth and self-criticism
- Substance use and co-occurring concerns
- Questions of meaning, purpose, and identity
- Concerns related to intimacy, sensuality, and sexuality
Natalie is LGBTQIA+ allied and sex-positive. She works to create a space where clients can explore identity, relationships, their bodies, and sexuality without judgment or assumptions.
A list of specialties cannot capture every reason someone may seek therapy. Our Client Care team can learn more about what you are experiencing and help determine whether Natalie or another Nashville Psych therapist may be the best fit.
Religious trauma and identity
Natalie has a particular interest in supporting clients who have been affected by religious trauma, adverse religious experiences, or high-control and fundamentalist environments. These experiences can influence a person’s sense of safety, identity, relationships, self-worth, and ability to trust their own thoughts, emotions, or body. They may also leave people feeling caught between the beliefs or communities that shaped them and the person they are becoming.
Therapy may offer space to explore these experiences without pressure to reach a particular conclusion about faith or spirituality. Natalie helps clients consider what they want to carry forward, what may no longer fit, and how to develop a relationship with themselves that feels more grounded and authentic.
For some clients, this also includes rebuilding a healthier connection with the body, sensuality, sexuality, pleasure, and intimacy after experiences of shame, fear, or disconnection.
Trauma, the body, and EMDR
Natalie believes strongly in the connection between emotional wellbeing and the body. She incorporates somatic therapy and is trained in Somatic and Attachment Focused EMDR, also known as S.A.F.E. EMDR.
Trauma can affect more than the way someone remembers an experience. It may influence the nervous system, sense of safety, relationships, emotional regulation, and the ability to remain connected to the body.
Natalie may incorporate EMDR and somatic work to help clients process difficult experiences and develop a greater capacity to stay present with emotions, physical sensations, and relationships. She approaches trauma work carefully and collaboratively. Clients are not expected to revisit painful experiences before they feel ready, and the pace of therapy is shaped by safety, trust, and each person’s needs.
Creativity and dream exploration
Natalie welcomes creativity into therapy for clients who are interested in exploring their experiences beyond conversation alone. Expressive art exercises may provide a way to engage emotions, memories, conflicts, or aspects of identity that feel difficult to put into words. These exercises are optional and are used to support the therapeutic process rather than to evaluate artistic ability.
Natalie may also work with dreams through a Jungian lens. Instead of offering a fixed interpretation, she helps clients explore the images, emotions, and personal associations within a dream and consider what they may reveal about the client’s inner experience.
Both art and dream work can create opportunities to notice new perspectives, make connections, and engage parts of the self that may be less accessible through direct analysis.
Education and professional background
Natalie earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with emphases in Marriage and Family Therapy and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. She is an Associate Licensed Professional Counselor with Mental Health Service Provider designation in Tennessee and practices under the clinical supervision of Dr. Daniel Goldstein, Clinical Director of Nashville Psych.
Natalie has served on the board of the Nashville Jung Circle since 2020, reflecting her continued interest in Jungian psychology, depth-oriented work, dreams, symbolism, and the inner life.
Before becoming a therapist, Natalie worked as a professional illustrator, designer, and photographer. Her creative background continues to influence the openness, imagination, and appreciation for complexity that she brings to her clinical work. Outside of the office, Natalie enjoys reading, gardening, making art, spending time in nature, and being with friends and family.
Exploring whether Natalie may be a good fit
You don’t need to know exactly what to say or have a clear explanation for everything you are experiencing before reaching out. A free phone consultation gives you an opportunity to share what you are looking for, ask questions, and learn more about Natalie’s approach. Our Client Care team can help you consider whether Natalie or another Nashville Psych therapist may best fit your needs and preferences.
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Call (615) 582-2882 or email clientcare@nashvillepsych.com. Our team will respond promptly and help you consider the next step.
Frequently asked questions
Who does Natalie work with?
Natalie works with adults ages 18 and up. She supports clients seeking greater self-awareness, self-acceptance, emotional connection, and meaning.
She often works with people navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, life transitions, burnout, religious trauma, identity questions, and concerns related to intimacy or sexuality.
What is Natalie’s therapeutic approach?
Natalie uses an integrative, depth-oriented approach that draws from psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy, family systems, somatic therapy, EMDR, expressive arts, and Jungian psychology.
She adapts her approach based on each client’s needs, interests, goals, and readiness.
Does Natalie work with religious trauma?
Yes. Natalie has a particular interest in working with people who have experienced religious trauma, adverse religious experiences, or high-control and fundamentalist environments.
She helps clients explore how these experiences may have affected their identity, relationships, self-worth, body, sexuality, and sense of meaning.
Does Natalie provide EMDR?
Yes. Natalie is trained in Somatic and Attachment Focused EMDR, or S.A.F.E. EMDR.
She may incorporate EMDR to help clients process trauma and other difficult experiences while remaining attentive to attachment, nervous-system regulation, readiness, and emotional safety.
Does Natalie use creative or art-based approaches?
Yes. Drawing from her background as a professional artist, Natalie may incorporate expressive art exercises with clients who are interested.
No artistic experience is needed, and creative exercises are always optional.
Does Natalie work with dreams?
Yes. Natalie welcomes dreams into therapy and explores them through a Jungian lens.
She works collaboratively with clients to understand the emotions, images, and personal meanings within a dream rather than imposing a standard interpretation.
Is Natalie LGBTQIA+ affirming and sex-positive?
Yes. Natalie is LGBTQIA+ allied and sex-positive.
She creates space for clients to explore identity, relationships, sexuality, sensuality, and their connection with their bodies without judgment or assumptions.
What does it mean that Natalie is an associate licensed therapist?
Natalie holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and is licensed in Tennessee as an Associate Licensed Professional Counselor with Mental Health Service Provider designation.
She provides therapy under the clinical supervision of an experienced licensed psychologist. Supervision gives associate therapists regular opportunities to consult, deepen their clinical work, and provide thoughtful, well-supported care.
What if I am not sure Natalie is the right therapist for me?
That uncertainty is common. A free phone consultation gives you an opportunity to share what you are looking for and ask questions about Natalie’s approach.
Our Client Care team can help you consider fit based on your concerns, preferences, goals, scheduling needs, and budget.
How do I get started?
Call (615) 582-2882, email clientcare@nashvillepsych.com, or request a free phone consultation online. Our Client Care team will learn more about what you are looking for and help you explore the best next step.