Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW (she/her) is a nationally award-winning pediatric therapist and community organizer who helps parents weave social justice actions into their daily parenting to promote their children’s development for 20 years.

Through the Come Back to Care Podcast and her forthcoming book, Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting, Nat translates developmental psychology and social justice theories into actionable invitations for parents to make parenting political in practical ways.

Nat also shares her clinical work with mental health and early care and education providers internationally. In her keynote addresses and workshops, Nat supports perinatal-to-five care providers in closing the gap between their social justice intentions and actions. She operationalizes equity, justice, and liberation so that providers can root their services in radical care and address burnout and moral injury.

Nat believes that when parents and providers alike heal our inner child and internalized oppression wounds in a community, we put fragmented pieces of ourselves together to show up to both parenting and community organizing with our whole selves. Then, we can dismantle systemic oppression and rebuild a culture that's rooted in liberation for our future generations.

Her decolonized pediatric and family mental health approach received a Congressional Commendation read into the Congressional Record by Congresswoman Delia Ramirez. Nat was also featured in Chicago’s WGN9, and was awarded the Zero to Three Award for 2021 Emerging Leadership and the 2024-2026 Zero to Three Fellowship. Her most recent publications include an academic article in the June 2022 Zero to Three Journal and an op-ed piece in Condé Nast’s Them.

Nat is a graduate of the Erikson Institute’s Social Work Program. She also holds another master’s degree in Infancy & Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Outside of her clinical and psychoeducation work at Come Back to Care, Nat provides political education and healing support to youth organizers around the stolen land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations (Chicago). To embody joy in radical art making, Nat has performed and headlined premier burlesque shows across the USA and in New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, and Canada.