About Patricia
Patricia Curran greets people who are tired, worried, or feeling stuck. She offers steady, practical support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. Patricia’s tone is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping someone find clearer footing in daily life.
Patricia Curran holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC. She brings 36 years of experience across outpatient, inpatient, and confinement settings.
How Patricia works
That background means she has seen many common struggles and learned several ways to help. In sessions she uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She listens first, then helps set small goals and practical steps.
Techniques include problem-focused work, skills for managing overwhelming emotions, and strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. People meet with Patricia to talk about relationships, addiction, career pressures, compassion fatigue, and intimacy concerns. She also supports those facing aging issues, caregiver stress, cancer-related challenges, hospice or end-of-life questions, and the upheaval of divorce or midlife transitions.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Patricia focuses on what someone wants to change and on simple, doable plans to get there. Sessions can include short-term problem solving or longer-term work on patterns that cause repeated pain.
Patricia lists 6 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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 36 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Approaches That Can Guide Online Sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters most to the person. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so clients can find their own answers and make choices that fit their values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot and change thought and behavior patterns that feed anxiety or depression. It often uses clear, structured exercises and small experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and better interpersonal communication.
Choosing an approach is a joint effort. The therapist will talk about what feels most helpful, try methods that match goals, and adjust the plan based on what works. That collaborative process helps people find the right mix of skills and insight.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the conversation feel more like an in-person visit, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera time is limited, live chat can be a short check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches above to address stress, grief, addiction, relationship concerns, and more.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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