About Patricia
Patricia (Trisha) Blackburn is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She holds an MA LICSW and a New York LCSW and brings 20 years of professional experience to her work. Trisha focuses on common life struggles such as stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and depression.
She also helps people living with ADHD and other long-term concerns find steadier footing. Trisha centers sessions on the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She believes each client knows their story best and that therapy can help build on existing strengths. Conversations are practical and respectful - the goal is to find manageable steps that fit daily life. Her methods draw from client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening and collaboration, and mindfulness therapy, which teaches simple attention and breathing skills.
Those approaches are used to ease overwhelming thoughts and to improve focus, mood, and coping skills. Clients who come for help with relationship strain, caregiving stress, sleep or eating difficulties, or career worries will find straightforward support. Trisha also addresses complex issues such as trauma, addiction, and end-of-life concerns with calm attention and steady pacing.
Starting therapy with her involves figuring out what matters most to the client and choosing small first steps. Sessions aim to leave people feeling more able to handle challenges, not burdened by jargon or unnecessary tasks.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and partnership. In sessions she pays close attention to each person's priorities and choices, and helps clients set their own goals and steps. This approach is useful for people who want a supportive space to make sense of stress, grief, parenting worries, or relationship strain.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to calm the body and steady attention. Techniques often include short breathing exercises and guided noticing of thoughts and sensations. These tools can help with anxiety, sleep challenges, difficulty concentrating, and coping with strong emotions like grief or irritability.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. She will discuss what feels most helpful and adapt methods to match the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying an approach, checking in, and adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into busy days with lower bandwidth, and messaging options are useful for brief check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These formats make it easier to fit regular therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Massachusetts, New York
- Languages
- English
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