Lake Natoma Therapy
Telehealth Therapy for Anxiety, Overthinking, and Relationship Stress
Helping adults in California and Nevada navigate anxiety, overthinking, and emotional overwhelm so they can build self-trust and healthier relationships with themselves and others.
Lake Natoma Therapy provides compassionate telehealth therapy for adults who feel stuck in anxious patterns, overwhelmed by their emotions, or unsure how to feel steady and connected in their relationships.
Founded by Deserae Wenk, LCSW, the practice offers a warm, thoughtful, and practical space to slow down, better understand what is happening beneath the surface, and begin building steadier ways of responding.
You do not have to have everything figured out before you begin.
Book a Consultation
Therapy Tailored to You
Taking the first step toward therapy can feel uncertain. You do not have to figure it out alone.
At Lake Natoma Therapy, therapy is personalized to your needs, goals, and lived experience. The work may focus on anxiety, overthinking, emotional overwhelm, people-pleasing, relationship stress, or patterns that no longer feel helpful.
Therapy is not about judging where you are. It is about helping you understand yourself more clearly, build self-trust, and create healthier relationships with yourself and others.
A Warm and Practical Approach
Lake Natoma Therapy supports adults who feel overwhelmed, anxious, emotionally reactive, disconnected, or stuck in patterns they do not fully understand.
Therapy can help you make sense of what is happening, identify the patterns underneath anxiety or relationship stress, and build practical tools that actually fit your life.
Deserae’s approach is warm, collaborative, and straightforward. She draws from evidence-based practices, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, attachment-informed work, and trauma-informed care, while tailoring therapy to each client’s needs and goals.
How Therapy Can Help
Therapy is a partnership. The goal is to help you slow down, understand your patterns, and develop healthier ways of responding to anxiety, stress, emotions, and relationships.
Our work may include:
- Understanding anxiety and overthinking patterns
- Building emotional regulation skills
- Reducing avoidance and people-pleasing
- Exploring relationship and attachment patterns
- Building self-trust and steadier decision-making
- Developing healthier relationships with yourself and others
The focus is always on what is most helpful for you.
Areas of Support
You do not need to have everything perfectly labeled before starting therapy. Sometimes you just know something is not working anymore and you are ready for support.
Anxiety & Overthinking
For racing thoughts, constant mental chatter, difficulty relaxing, replaying conversations, second-guessing yourself, or worrying about what might go wrong.
Emotional Overwhelm
For big emotional reactions, shutting down, irritability, feeling easily triggered, or struggling to feel steady.
People-Pleasing
For saying yes when you want to say no, avoiding conflict, feeling responsible for others’ emotions, or losing touch with your own needs.
Relationship Stress
For conflict, disconnection, communication struggles, fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting, or repeating painful relationship patterns.
Self-Trust & Feeling Stuck
For times when you may not know exactly what is wrong, but you know you want to feel more grounded, clear, and connected to yourself.
Therapy From the Comfort of Home
All sessions are conducted through secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth.
Lake Natoma Therapy provides online therapy for adults located in California and Nevada, allowing you to attend sessions from the privacy and comfort of your own space. No commute, no waiting room — just focused support that fits more easily into your life.
You will need a private space, reliable internet connection, and a device with a camera and microphone.
Let’s Connect
Lake Natoma Therapy offers a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation to help determine whether therapy may be a good fit.
If you are ready to begin therapy, or even if you are still unsure, reaching out is a meaningful first step.
Book a Consultation