Nathan Bauer (He/Him)

My Background

I provide both short-term and long-term therapy for a variety of issues, including depression, anxiety, and trauma. However, I believe that I have particular skills around supporting people navigating grief, traumatic loss, as well as substance use concerns. Much of my training/experience has been within college-counseling centers along with in-patient substance use treatment, where I ran multiple therapy groups for both grief and trauma. Our initial sessions will focus on finding what works best for you based upon your needs and goals. While I prefer to work from a Trauma-Informed Gestalt therapy perspective (viewing things as interconnected and contextual), I also draw upon ACT and CBT depending on each individual person with whom I'm working. At the beginning, we'll work to identify how directive or non-directive you wish therapy to be and whether you desire to learn skills or focus on deeper exploration.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I approach all of my work using a liberation psychology-based lens and strongly believe that much of the suffering people experience happens within the context of oppressive systems such as Capitalism, systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. I avoid using gendered pronouns (unless asked to do so by my clients) within my documentation so as to protect the confidentiality of those with which I work. I believe in affirming all held identities of my clients. I also recognize how financially stressful therapy can be and am happy to discuss sliding scale options with any potential client.