About Patricia
Patricia Childress is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of experience. She offers a warm, straightforward style that helps people sort through hard moments. Patricia uses practical, goal-focused work to help people take small steps toward feeling better.
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and concerns around self-esteem. ADHD is listed among her areas of focus. Patricia also addresses parenting, sleep difficulties, and the emotional fallout of major life changes.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolbox to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Sessions aim to be interactive and focused on clear, achievable goals.
Patricia describes grief broadly, noting it can come from many kinds of losses and unexpected changes. She works with clients to identify unresolved feelings and build practical coping skills for future challenges. The goal is a stronger set of strategies to use when life becomes difficult.
Patricia brings long experience across age ranges and many life situations. She emphasizes collaborative planning and short-term goal work when that fits a person's needs. Her style is encouraging and down-to-earth, focused on helping people find useful skills and steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Patricia uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's concerns and priorities; this approach emphasizes listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. Cognitive behavioral therapy, another core method she uses, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Patricia will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different tools, then adapt sessions so the chosen methods feel useful and manageable. The process is collaborative and can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and emotional check-ins. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or suit people with limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to keep momentum between sessions, jot down notes, or check in after trying a new strategy. These options give flexibility to schedule care around work, family, and daily life while using the same therapeutic approaches Patricia applies in her practice.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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