About Patricia
Patricia Wilkinson is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) in Massachusetts with four decades of practice. She focuses on helping people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Patricia aims to build practical skills clients can use each day.
Her style is straightforward and supportive for people who want a steady ally while they make changes. Patricia has long experience as a medical social worker supporting young adults and adults through illness and health-related challenges.
Background and approach
She also works with people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, career dilemmas, and intimacy concerns. ADHD and attention-related struggles are among the issues she helps people address alongside mood and coping problems. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods that prioritize each person’s goals.
She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful patterns and solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable steps. Internal Family Systems and psychodynamic ideas inform deeper work when people want to understand long-standing patterns. Her approach is collaborative: she partners with clients to pick methods that fit their needs.
Patricia often blends short-term goal work with slower exploration, depending on what will help most. She helps people practice new skills, try different ways of reacting, and track progress over time. Patricia describes asking for help as a first step toward change.
She brings decades of experience and a practical focus to sessions so people can gain tools and greater confidence as they move forward.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people set their own goals; it is useful for building trust and deciding what to work on first. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns, which often works well in short-term online sessions. Internal Family Systems looks at different parts of a person’s inner life and can help with longstanding patterns when someone wants deeper self-understanding.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. Patricia will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That may mean starting with solution-focused steps and adding deeper exploration over time, depending on how things progress.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when they prefer visual connection. Phone sessions are useful for lower bandwidth or when a hands-free option is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, shorter coaching-style exchanges, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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