About Patricia
Patricia Green-Metz helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. She works with concerns like parenting challenges, grief, addiction, self-esteem, and identity-related issues. Patricia is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience in Louisiana.
She uses straightforward, respectful care to help people find practical steps forward. Her approach is warm and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals.
Sessions focus on small, realistic changes that add up over time.
How Patricia works
Patricia combines talk therapy with techniques meant to reduce distress in daily life. She draws from client-centered methods to follow each person’s lead and prioritize their values. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are introduced when strong emotions or relationship cycles get in the way. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are used when helpful to increase focus and build motivation. She pays close attention to how culture, prejudice, and identity shape a person’s experience.
That includes work around gender dysphoria and multicultural concerns. Patricia supports people recovering from sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, and self-harm urges with care tailored to the individual. She also helps with career strain, compassion fatigue, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes.
Her style aims to be practical, steady, and nonjudgmental.
Patricia lists 7 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. Online sessions using this approach let clients talk through what matters most while the therapist reflects and helps organize next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. In an online session CBT can include practicing new ways of thinking, setting behavioral experiments, and reviewing work between meetings to track progress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That process is collaborative and can change over time as goals evolve.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when a quieter setting or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep steady progress.
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