About Patricia
Patricia Carrington is a Licensed Professional Counselor and social worker in Wisconsin with seven years of therapy experience and a long history in social services. She brings a calm, easygoing manner to sessions and aims to build trust quickly so clients can focus on practical steps forward.
Patricia describes her work as collaborative and nonjudgmental, helping people set attainable goals and try concrete strategies to feel better. Before moving into her current counseling role she spent many years in social services and case management, supporting people affected by abuse and trauma.
How Patricia works
That background shaped her interest in helping clients manage anxiety, depression, anger, and substance use concerns. She also helps people navigate relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, and career transitions. Her approach is grounded in client-centered work and goal-focused methods.
Patricia emphasizes solutions that fit each person’s life rather than one-size-fits-all fixes. Sessions often involve identifying specific changes to try between meetings and checking what works. She draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to help clients notice patterns, manage strong feelings, and make practical changes.
Patricia also attends to issues tied to attachment, identity, and life transitions when those come up. Patricia offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions are scheduled through the site’s matching process and follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Patricia lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Patricia integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people make concrete changes. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the person’s pace so they feel heard and respected. Cognitive behavioral approaches look at thoughts and behaviors together and teach practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.She also uses emotionally-focused ideas to help with relationship and intimacy concerns by identifying and naming key emotions and patterns that affect connections. Together, the therapist and client decide which methods to try based on current needs and goals, adjusting the plan over time in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied routines. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide quick, flexible ways to stay in touch between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into evenings, weekends, or work breaks.
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