A native to rural Minnesota, Dr. Natwick has practiced psychotherapy in the greater Seattle area, rural Virginia, and now settled in the beautiful Skagit Valley in Washington State.
He studied psychology at Carroll College (2010) in Helena, MT before moving to Seattle to obtain his Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Seattle Pacific University (2015). In 2020, Dr. Natwick completed his Ph.D in Marriage and Family Therapy from Virginia Tech. He has worked in the WISe program supporting families in crisis, provided therapy in counseling services at a university, been in a group practice, and been clinical professor at Seattle University.
Though therapy is individually crafted and adapted to the needs of each client, Dr. Natwick therapeutic orientation is psychodynamic. It is derived from the theories of Freud and Jung, and their followers who posit the idea of the psyche as consisting of both conscious and unconscious thoughts, impulses, fantasies, and ideas. The psychodynamic approach is generally concerned with increasing self-understanding and deepening insight into emotional issues and conflicts which are deeper than the presenting problems. Psychodynamic therapy does not focus solely on symptom alleviation but rather with the deeper distress and complexes that interfere with growth and well-being. In the process of psychodynamic therapy people obtain a better understanding of their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and relationships. The psychodynamic psychotherapist values the evolving relationship between the therapist and the patient as the primary vehicle for greater understanding of the Self.
Dr. Natwick has been active in ongoing training and education. Completing the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing certification and completing a one year program from the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco on Jungian psychology.
Dr. Natwick enjoys teaching. He routinely gives lectures to groups of various mental health topics, provides supervision for students and licensed therapists, and presents at conferences.
