About Patrice
Patrice Harris is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and compassion fatigue. She brings five years of clinical experience in California to each session. Patrice aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about hard things and build better coping skills.
She uses several therapy approaches to meet each person where they are. Those include Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at relationships and how early bonds affect current feelings, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Patrice works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when needed. Sessions move at a practical pace. Patrice listens first, then works with clients to set clear goals.
She offers tools for managing stress, improving focus, and building self-esteem. Conversations also address issues like abandonment, attachment worries, isolation, and workplace stress. Patrice attends to how prejudice and discrimination, women’s concerns, and life purpose questions show up in day-to-day struggles.
She uses psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns that repeat over time and client-centered listening to keep the work grounded in each person’s priorities. Her style is warm and direct. Clients can expect concrete strategies alongside deeper conversation about roots of problems.
Patrice values collaboration and helps people leave sessions with practical next steps.
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What Patrice works with
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and responses. Online sessions can use this approach to notice attachment patterns in how clients relate and to practice new ways of connecting and regulating emotion. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors. It works well online because it includes concrete exercises, thought records, and behavioral experiments that can be done between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. Those skills can be taught in sessions and reinforced through brief messages or practice between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patrice collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adapts tools from attachment work, CBT, and DBT so the plan fits how the client prefers to learn and grow.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and role-play exercises. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get short reflections, reminders, or skill coaching between sessions. These formats help therapy fit into a busy life while keeping the focus on progress and usable strategies.
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