Hello, I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in private practice and an anthropologist (PhD). From 2019-2023, I was in training as a clinical research psychoanalyst candidate at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and Newport Psychoanalytic Institute.
I have enjoyed serving adults, adolescents, and children in various settings, including mental health residential in-patient, private practice as a reiki master in mind-body medicine, tutoring with students with learning challenges, such as ADHD, autism, trauma, depression, and test anxiety, and nonprofit case management in domestic violence. I completed my practicum training at the LGBTQ Center of Orange County through a master’s program in Counseling at California State University, Fullerton, which is guided by Carl Rogers’ principles of unconditional positive regard in creating a safe environment for a person to explore and heal themselves.
I’m Vietnamese American by heritage and a native of Orange County, California, home to the largest community of Vietnamese diasporics in the world. I sat with hundreds of Vietnamese lesbians (les) in my volunteer work and fieldwork between 2006-2012, listening to how they navigated gender, sexuality, and belonging in their communities. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, camping, and reiki.
Natalie “Nat” Newton
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 147220)
Anthropologist (PhD)
Education & Training
2020-2023. Research Psychoanalyst Candidate, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles
2022 M.S., Counseling, California State University, Fullerton. Thesis: “To sleep, perchance to dream: Psychoanalytic treatments of insomnia.”
2021 Certificate in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), Gregg Jacobs, PhD (principal founder of CBT-I at Harvard Medical School)
2020 Certificate of Completion in Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Newport Psychoanalytic Institute
2020 Certificate of Completion in TeleMental Health and Digital Ethics, Zur Institute
2020 Certificate of Completion in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), University of California, Irvine, Samueli Integrative Health Institute
2012 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Irvine (Fulbright Scholar 2009-2010)
2005 B.A., Women’s Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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