About Patricia
Patricia (Trish) Woodson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience in Virginia. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, grief, relationship problems, mood concerns and ADHD. Trish aims to help clients find practical ways to handle day-to-day challenges and feel more in control.
Trish has worked in community mental health clinics, independent practice, and schools. That range gives her experience with different kinds of life situations and routines.
Background and approach
She often draws on simple, goal-oriented strategies in sessions. Her style is warm and accepting. Trish listens closely and helps people set small, realistic steps for change.
Sessions often focus on clear problem solving and building tools to manage symptoms and stressful moments. Trish uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses solution-focused methods to identify strengths and short-term goals.
Together these approaches are aimed at practical change rather than lengthy theory discussions. People who appreciate straightforward, encouraging guidance may find her approach useful. Trish emphasizes collaboration and keeps plans tied to daily life.
She works to help clients leave sessions with concrete next steps they can try between appointments.
Approaches and online care that fit daily life
Trish frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice patterns of thinking and behavior that increase stress or low mood, then practice small changes that can reduce symptoms. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on strengths and the next small steps, so sessions often end with clear, doable goals to try before the next meeting.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Trish treats the choice of methods as collaborative and adjusts plans based on each person's goals and preferences. She discusses what seems most useful, then tests those ideas together over a few sessions to see what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter updates, brief problem-solving, or when typing fits a person's schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while focusing on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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