About Patricia
Patricia Manning uses a client-centered style that emphasizes connection and practical tools. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of experience and offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life transitions. Patricia writes plainly and listens closely to help people find what works for them.
Her work grew from decades in child welfare and trauma-related settings. Early roles included child protection, permanency planning, and adoption work.
How Patricia works
She also spent years supporting children, adolescents, and parents in foster care, residential treatment, psychiatric hospitals, alternative schools, and shelters that served survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Patricia trained in mental health counseling and earned a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling in 2008.
That education built on long practical experience and introduced a wider toolkit for addressing trauma and relationship struggles. She blends several evidence-informed methods to match each person’s needs. In sessions she focuses on attachment, trauma processing, and skills for emotion regulation and problem solving.
Patricia draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, EMDR, and attachment-based work to help people manage symptoms and rebuild trust in themselves. She also addresses parenting concerns, adoption-related issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. Patricia practices in Oregon and conducts therapy in English.
She offers a collaborative, nonjudgmental style while gently challenging unhelpful patterns. People who want clear tools, trauma-focused care, and steady support often seek her approach.
Patricia lists 9 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches in online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships and early bonds shape how a person connects with others now. Online sessions use this lens to address trust, closeness, and parenting concerns so people can improve relationship patterns and feel safer in connections.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify thoughts and behavior patterns that keep problems going. In remote sessions Patricia uses CBT techniques to teach practical skills for anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with life changes, with step-by-step exercises and real-world homework.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly called EMDR, is used to process traumatic memories that continue to cause distress. When appropriate, EMDR can be adapted for online delivery to support trauma processing over several sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Patricia works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and life situation. That collaborative process may combine strategies from different models so care fits the individual rather than forcing one method.
Online therapy offers flexibility and access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone can be used when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging supports quick touchpoints or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and daily life while still getting focused, professional support.
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