Nathan Blattman, MA, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor & Men’s Counselor in Katy, TX
Nathan Blattman is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Katy, Texas working with anger, anxiety, depression, and addiction. He works with a lot of men who have never been to therapy before and were not certain they would like it.
He also sees adolescents and couples. He holds a Master of Arts in Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary and is Restoration Therapy Certified, Level 1.
He sees clients in person in Katy and online throughout Texas, and is currently accepting new clients.
Who I Work With
So many of us experience pain that leaves us feeling overwhelmed, broken, and stuck. I desire for each of my clients to know that they are deeply cared for and do not have to carry their burdens alone. Through providing a space of genuine care and acceptance, I seek to help people make sense of their experiences and emotions. I am honored to journey alongside individuals, couples, adults, and adolescents to help them better understand their pain and discover a path to peace.
It is my passion to work with those wrestling with anxiety, depression, addiction, and anger. For many people, these experiences are endured or pushed to the side as an inescapable part of life. My desire is to help people work through the things that often feel insurmountable and find peace on the other side.
A lot of the people I sit with have been carrying the same thing for a long time, resigning to accept their pain as a permanent, inescapable part of their life. The anger that comes out louder than they meant. The drinking that stopped being a choice somewhere along the way. The numbness that is quietly stealing their joy. The resentment that has crept into a once exciting marriage. The hopelessness that keeps us stuck, because hoping things could be different means setting yourself up for disappointment.
Some of them have never been to therapy and were not sure they would like it. If that is you, let me suggest that most of what I provide men is a space to have an honest, judgment-free conversation about their lives. In a space like that, men can take back control over their journeys and get back to becoming the men they want to be. Your life is too important to let it pass by without at least a conversation. I give men a chance to have that conversation.
How I Work
I work predominantly from the framework of Restoration Therapy, and I practice an eclectic range of therapy alongside it to meet each person’s needs and goals. I believe people should know they are deeply cared for and do not have to carry their burdens alone.
Anger almost always sits on top of something else — usually fear, shame, or grief that never had anywhere to go. That is a practical observation rather than a soft one: it is very hard to manage an emotion you have misidentified. So we work out what is underneath, and we build concrete skills to keep things from going sideways while we do it. That pairing is essentially what Restoration Therapy is for — naming the pain under a reaction, then practicing something different in the moment it matters.
With addiction, I am not interested in shame as a change strategy. It does not work, and most people have already spent years trying it on themselves. Instead, I work on increasing self-motivation for change that will carry clients through the hardest parts of overcoming addiction. I also help clients recognize what the addiction is doing for them, and we collaborate on how they can give themselves what they need in healthy, constructive ways instead of self-destructive ones.
Training & Credentials
- Master of Arts in Counseling — Dallas Theological Seminary
- Licensed Professional Counselor, State of Texas — License #93879
- Restoration Therapy Certified, Level 1
- EMDR trained — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Areas of Focus
- Men’s counseling
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Addiction and substance use
- Adolescents
- Couples
COMMON QUESTIONS
I HAVE NEVER DONE THERAPY. WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE FIRST SESSION?
Mostly I ask questions and you talk. I will want to know what brought you in now rather than a year ago, what you have already tried, and what you would want to be different. You do not have to have it organized in advance. Fifty minutes, and you will leave with a sense of whether this is going to be useful.
DO YOU WORK WITH MEN OLDER THAN YOU?
I meet with many men older than me. I often get that look of “no offense, but what does a young man like you have to offer me.” My response is simple. When it comes to your life, I am not the expert in the room, you are. I simply give you a space to finally have the conversations about your life that you have struggled to have. For my part I will bring questions and patterns that might be helpful to you, and I might offer insights from my years of counseling, but these are all tools for you in your work of healing and growth.
DO I HAVE TO WANT TO STOP DRINKING BEFORE I START COUNSELING?
No. The most important part of changing any behavior is motivation, and it is also the hardest thing to hold onto sometimes. If you find yourself not wanting to stop even though a part of you, or your family, insists you should, that is a difficult place to be. Counseling is a great place to allow yourself an open, unfiltered conversation about everything without fear of misspeaking or creating conflict.
IS ANGER MANAGEMENT THE SAME AS THERAPY FOR ANGER?
Not quite. Anger management programs teach you to contain the behavior, which is worth doing. Therapy asks why the anger is there in the first place. Containment without that tends to hold until it does not.
DO YOU ONLY WORK WITH MEN?
No. I see adolescents and couples as well, and plenty of women. It is fair to say that a lot of my caseload is men who have never done this before, and that if you are a man who has been putting this off, you would not be unusual here.
Getting Started
Here Comes The Sun Counseling is at 908 Avenue B #200 in Katy, Texas. I see clients in person there and online throughout Texas, and I am currently accepting new clients.
If you would rather ask a question before booking, that is fine too — call 832-278-2549 or use the contact form. Every first step here is the same: a free 15-minute phone consultation, at no cost and with no obligation.
If you are in crisis or thinking about hurting yourself, call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or text HOME to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line. Both are available 24 hours a day. We are not an emergency service.