About Patricia
Patricia Prendergast is an LCSW with 28 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing addiction, trauma, depression, ADHD, grief, and parenting stress. Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on practical steps that make daily life easier.
Patricia listens first and then helps set clear goals. Sessions often begin with what matters most to the client that week. She uses simple tools to manage anxiety, mood, and anger so people can try changes between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work with trauma, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregivers under stress. She also supports people coping with relationship problems, codependency, and issues around commitment and communication. This experience informs how she tailors support to each person's situation.
Patricia draws on approaches like attachment-based work, client-centered methods, and cognitive behavioral techniques. She blends narrative and motivational strategies to help people make sense of their experiences and stay motivated for change. The focus is on clear, doable steps rather than jargon.
Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances listening with practical strategies. Patricia aims to help people build routines, improve self-esteem, and handle life transitions. Her practice is based in Illinois and sessions are conducted in English.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Patricia uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client leads the conversation and goals. This approach helps people who need someone to listen and reflect back their own priorities and values.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT can help with mood, anxiety, anger, and some ADHD-related challenges by teaching concrete strategies to manage symptoms day to day.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Patricia will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful and realistic for the client’s life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people hold a face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging make shorter check-ins or scheduling easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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