Natalie Brown, LMSW, MCLC

For the first few decades of my working life, I was an actor - predominantly for stage - and singer in musicals and sometimes in a band setting. I've been an Actor's Equity member since the early 80's. When the instability of the lifestyle finally took its toll around 2010, I had to ask myself, "if I weren't an actor, what else would fulfill me? What else might I have a passion for?"

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rapist, helping people. Throughout my life, I was seemingly the person others would seek out for advice; the person someone would come out of the closet with, the person from whom many would ask for relationship help. When I came to the crossroads of putting my theater career on an extended hiatus and becoming a therapist, the daunting realization of returning to academia filled me with fear. But, I thought it time to finally get properly schooled in the advice I'd been dispensing all my life. I’m an unconventional person, who has lived an unconventional life. I was a full-time actor/singer before I switched gears to become a therapist. (You’d be amused by how much these two professions intersect!) I still have an occasional obligation to that part of my life, but because of the advent of the Virtual Practice, I can help people from wherever I happen to be.