Natasha Vandamme
Associate Therapist
(she/her)
Natasha is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at Nido IFT, currently accepting new clients in California!
Natasha believes therapy is a space to nurture a more trusting, compassionate relationship with yourself and the people and world around you. Her work helps clients reconnect with the wisdom in their embodied experiences, including emotions, desires, and reactions, so they can better understand what they long for and what they truly need.
She is dedicated to creating a space where clients feel safe enough to be fully themselves. Together, she and her clients gently explore the ways they have learned to protect themselves from pain, and they turn toward difficult experiences with care, curiosity, and compassion. Her approach is grounded in humility, presence, and a deep respect for each person’s complexity. Natasha collaborates with clients to discover what empowers them to trust and love themselves more deeply. She believes that lasting change grows from sincere self-compassion rather than shame.
While she honors the emotional depths of the work, Natasha also makes room for joy and playfulness in the therapy process. She celebrates all moments of growth, no matter how big or small; she sees therapy as a place where clients can safely explore what lives in their hearts, minds, and bodies, even when (and arguably especially when) it feels scary. She doesn’t abandon hope for brighter days, while also never forcing it. When clients struggle to hold onto hope, she gently holds it for them.
Natasha has experience supporting individuals, couples, and families who are navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, complex PTSD, attachment wounds, perfectionism, identity exploration, self-esteem, and relationship challenges. She welcomes clients of all ages, identities, and backgrounds.
As a first-generation, neurodivergent, queer, bi-racial Filipino American woman, Natasha brings her commitment to social justice into the therapy room. Her work is heart-honoring, person-centered, and informed by Liberation Psychology. She considers each client’s lived experience within broader cultural, historical, and systemic contexts, while also supporting clients in reconnecting with their agency, resilience, and values. It's important for Natasha to get to know each person as themselves, their unique intersectionality, and how their identity and sociocultural environment have impacted them. She invites clients to discern which beliefs and values feel truly authentic to them and which were placed on them by our societal norms.
When she’s not in the therapy room, Natasha is sampling all of the fragrances at any given department store, singing and dancing, and discovering new ways to embrace delight, magic, and whimsy (if you have any recommendations, let her know!).
Natasha has unique experience working with:
Self-esteem
Self-worth
Self-trust
Perfectionism
Identity Exploration
Anxiety
Social Anxiety
Trauma and Complex PTSD
Shame and Self-Compassion
Attachment Wounds
Depression
Parental estrangement
Intellectualization / Rumination
Children of Immigrants / First-Generation
BIPOC / PGM Folks
Asian Folks
Mixed race folks
Gen Z
ENM / Polyamorous Folks and Couples Therapy
Natasha’s approach and modalities when working with clients:
Psychodynamic
Trauma Focused
Attachment Based
Compassion and Emotions Focused
Humanistic and Person-Centered
Relational
Anti-oppressive and Liberation Oriented
Experiential (Relational Gestalt and Internal Family Systems)
Natasha is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Supervised By Kate McDonough, LMFT #133161
Practicing in the state of California for in-person and telehealth sessions.
Want to work with Natasha?
You can expect a response from us within two business days.

