About Patricia
Patricia Leigh is a licensed professional counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky with 12 years of clinical experience. She combines years of hands-on work in mental health and caregiving with a steady, patient approach. Patricia aims to create a space where people can name what feels hard and take practical steps forward.
She helps people facing trauma, abuse, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders like bipolar. She also works with concerns such as parenting stress, anger, addiction, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy-related struggles.
How Patricia works
Additional focuses include grief, life transitions, identity and LGBT concerns, and obsessive or compulsive patterns. Patricia uses approaches rooted in Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Jungian ideas, and Mindfulness Therapy. In sessions she listens first, then suggests concrete tools people can try between appointments.
She favors methods that connect feelings to everyday choices and habits. Her background includes long experience supporting children’s development and years working in geriatric care, which inform her view of people across the lifespan. That mix influences how she sees patterns, family roles, and attachment concerns such as abandonment or adoption and foster care histories.
People who work with Patricia can expect steady support, practical strategies, and a collaborative pace. She frames therapy as a process of learning and practice rather than quick fixes. That approach helps people build skills for coping, decision making, and moving through difficult emotions.
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.
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Patricia draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build healthier routines. CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns that fuel anxiety, depression, or compulsive behavior and testing small changes that shift mood and behavior. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices that reduce reactivity and support stress management.She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation and impulse control are central concerns. DBT offers concrete skills for handling intense feelings, improving distress tolerance, and managing interpersonal conflict. Together these approaches give both short-term tools and longer-term habits to reduce symptoms and improve functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time so it fits how someone wants to live.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for interactive skill practice and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice-only check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are convenient for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or to follow up on tools between sessions.
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