About Patricia
Patricia Childress uses a client-centered approach to help people sort through difficult changes and emotional pain. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of experience. Patricia speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel practical and manageable for people who are overwhelmed.
Patricia focuses on relationship problems, grief, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress, and parenting strain. She also addresses trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, sleep trouble, depression, compassion fatigue, and attention-deficit concerns.
How Patricia works
Her practice includes many additional focus areas such as adoption and foster care, attachment matters, body image, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and blended family issues. Her style blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral methods and dialectical behavior skills. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
Sessions aim to identify concrete steps and build a personal toolbox for handling future challenges. Patricia has broad clinical experience across the lifespan and has spent many years guiding people through big life events and loss. She describes grief as more than bereavement, noting it can follow job changes, moves, separations, and other unexpected losses.
The focus is on working through feelings so people can make clearer decisions and feel steadier. Therapy with Patricia typically looks like a collaborative process that sets short-term, solution-focused goals. She helps clients track progress, practice new skills between sessions, and adapt plans as life shifts.
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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.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Online therapy using practical therapies and skills
Patricia often uses client-centered therapy to help people feel heard and to set goals that matter to them. This approach focuses on the person’s perspective and builds a plan around their priorities, which can help when life feels confusing or overwhelming.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice small behavior changes that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or lift mood. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used for coping with strong emotions and improving relationship interactions through concrete techniques like distress tolerance and emotion regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Patricia will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people see nonverbal cues and work through exercises in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, brief reflections, or when typing feels easier than talking.
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