About Patricia
Patricia Carrington is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Social Worker based in Wisconsin. She brings a calm, steady presence to sessions and draws on decades of experience in social services, case management, and trauma work. Patricia uses a practical, nonjudgmental style to help people find workable steps forward.
Patricia focuses on concerns such as anxiety, depression, anger, addiction, grief, relationship strain, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, intimacy struggles, career challenges, and adjustment to life changes.
Background and approach
Her work often begins with listening and identifying small, achievable goals. Her background started in social work with women and children affected by abuse and trauma, and that early experience shaped her approach. Patricia combines client-centered listening with practical techniques to address current problems.
She emphasizes collaboration, asking clients what feels realistic for their lives. Sessions are solution-minded and goal-directed. Patricia favors strategies that help clients build skills and try different approaches between meetings.
She encourages straightforward plans that fit daily routines and responsibilities. Patricia schedules evenings and weekend hours to accommodate working parents and busy families. She checks messages several times a day and aims to reply within 24 hours.
The focus in early sessions is on clear goals and simple next steps to help people feel less overwhelmed.
How Patricia’s Approaches Work Online
Patricia uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to guide online sessions. Client-centered work means she starts by listening and following the client's priorities, creating space for people to say what matters most. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce stress and improve daily routines.She also draws on emotionally focused ideas when relationship or intimacy concerns come up, helping people name and respond to strong emotions together. Each approach is practical and focused on what a person can try between sessions to see real change. Choosing which methods to use is a collaborative process; she will talk with each client about goals and preferences and adapt the plan as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for full conversations and reading nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can work well for short check-ins, progress notes, or when a quick strategy is helpful between visits. These options make it easier to schedule sessions evenings or weekends and keep therapy consistent with busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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