Experience Purpose and Healing...
ALL ABOUT THERAPY
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Whether you are seeking individual support or relationship counseling, therapy provides a place to slow down and look closely at the challenges you’re facing. It offers a dedicated space to explore your relationships, better understand yourself, and heal emotional wounds so you can move forward with greater clarity and intention.
Working on yourself requires courage, honesty, and a willingness to face difficult truths. While confronting painful parts of your story is rarely easy, it is often where the deepest growth begins. Remaining stuck in patterns that create pain or disconnection is often far more exhausting than the work of therapy.
In a supportive and collaborative environment, we will examine:
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Your experiences: Exploring your past, present, and the direction you want your life to go.
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Your patterns: Identifying the beliefs and emotional experiences that may be shaping your behavior.
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Your inner voice: Developing a more compassionate dialogue and healthier ways to respond to life’s challenges.
Using evidence-based approaches, our goal goes beyond mere symptom relief. Together, we will work toward meaningful, lasting change in how you relate to yourself, others, and the life you are creating.
EXPERIENCE HEALING
Are you struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, or major life changes?
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Do your relationships feel strained, distant, or unsatisfying?
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Are you overwhelmed by family responsibilities or uncertainty about the future?
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Do you feel trapped in cycles of overthinking, isolation, or fear?
You don’t have to carry this weight alone.
Many people reach a point where they feel completely burned out, disconnected from themselves, or unsure how to move forward. You might find yourself repeating old patterns, doubting your decisions, or struggling to set boundaries. While we often believe we should handle our pain in isolation, human beings are simply not meant to navigate suffering by themselves.
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Healing begins by allowing yourself to be understood.
When you have been hurt in the past, it can feel incredibly difficult to trust others—or even your own instincts. Therapy offers a safe, collaborative space to rebuild that trust, challenge old patterns, and discover healthier ways of responding to life’s challenges. Everyone deserves the opportunity to find greater clarity, balance, and deep peace.
A Space for Meaningful Change
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in the Fresno area. At Purpose and Healing, I offer a compassionate and collaborative space for individuals, couples, and adolescents seeking to transform their pain into lasting healing.
Get to know me
Hi! I'm Natalie Bennett, LMFT.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over a decade of experience working with trauma, emotional suffering, and the deeper questions people often carry about their lives and relationships. My approach draws from psychodynamic and existential therapy, along with specialized training in EMDR, DBT, Structural Dissociation and attachment-focused trauma work.
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I believe therapy can be a place to examine the patterns that shape our lives, make sense of our experiences, and gradually move toward a more meaningful and integrated way of living.
TELEHEALTH
Taking care during sickness, mobility limitations, transportation issues, childcare challenges...
Telehealth allows us to connect and engage securely in psychotherapy sessions via telephone or video. This option is HIPAA compliant and enables treatment to be conducted remotely and safely within the state of California. Please feel free to reach me if you are interested in seeking services through this method and would like to know more about telehealth options.
Areas of Treatment Focus
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Christian Counseling
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Life Transitions
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Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
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Self Esteem and Adjustments
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Stress and Questioning Purpose
HELP CENTER
Rates for individual psychotherapy are $175 per therapy hour (50-55min.) and couple's counseling sessions are $200 per therapy hour. Please see the Rates and Fees tab below for specifics as intake sessions vary in pricing and other important information can be reviewed there.
WHAT INSURANCES DO YOU TAKE?
At this time I am paneled UnitedHealth Care Optum only. I am able to take a private pay clients currently and can provide a Superbill for those clients seeking Out of Network insurance reimbursement. Please check with your specific insurance provider regarding your needs and options.
DO YOU OFFER SLIDING SCALE RATES?
Yes, I offer a limited number of available sliding scale openings which are dependent on income and financial hardship or circumstance. Please feel free to discuss during our phone consultation if needed.
HOW LONG DOES EACH THERAPY SESSION TAKE?
Individual psychotherapy sessions are generally 50-55 minutes in length. The initial intake session is 60-90 minutes in order to gather thorough information during assessment.
DO YOU USE FREUDIAN OR JUNGIAN ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES?
Yes, dependent on your clinical need I do provide some Jungian techniques with regards to dream work and the shadow self. I generally engage treatment from a psychodynamic view integrating a variety of approaches.
DO YOU OFFER COUPLES OR FAMILY THERAPY?
Yes, I am taking new private pay couple's counseling clients. Contact me for specific availability. Often we will include additional family members in session for collateral support during individual psychotherapy but, I am not currently offering family therapy.