About Patricia
Patricia Carr is a licensed professional counselor in Louisiana with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. Patricia focuses on practical problem solving and on finding strengths people already have.
She emphasizes steady support while people try changes that feel hard. Patricia uses straightforward conversation to help people sort next steps. She respects each person as the author of their own story and works to build on existing skills.
How Patricia works
Sessions often include clear goals, simple tools, and check-ins to track progress. Her approach blends talking and action. She may help clients notice patterns in thinking and behavior, practice mindfulness to manage difficult moments, and use motivational techniques to strengthen commitment to change.
She also brings trauma-focused strategies when past events continue to cause distress. Patricia has spent more than a decade helping people work through addiction, grief, relationship strain, and major life transitions. She also supports concerns such as eating issues, anger, bipolar symptoms, and challenges tied to aging and end-of-life care.
Her background includes work across a range of community and clinical settings in Louisiana. People who choose Patricia can expect a calm, goal-oriented style. Sessions are practical and respectful, aimed at making everyday life feel more manageable.
She encourages small steps that add up to real change.
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What Patricia works with
The areas below are the ones Patricia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Patricia often blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to meet people where they are. Client-Centered work focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the client guide the pace and goals of therapy. It is useful when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of feelings and choices. CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviors connect and offers hands-on exercises to shift unhelpful patterns; it can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with addictive urges.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Patricia will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest options to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve during therapy.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is good for a full-session conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging let someone check in between meetings or have shorter exchanges. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family time, or travel while keeping a steady pace of support.
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