About Patricia
Patricia Olachea Haessly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with three decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening closely and using practical tools to rebuild balance. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for busy parents and adults.
Patricia combines attachment-based ideas with client-centered care to help people understand how past relationships shape present struggles. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to address anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress.
How Patricia works
For people who carry trauma, she includes EMDR to process painful memories when appropriate. Her caseload includes people coping with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief, workplace stress, and the ups and downs of mood disorders such as bipolar. She also supports people facing immigration-related stress, chronic illness and pain, and identity or multicultural concerns.
Patricia pays attention to family of origin issues and attachment patterns that often repeat across generations. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can take place through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Patricia works with people to set goals and choose practical steps that fit daily life.
Her approach is steady and compassionate, focused on small changes that add up over time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair a person to the best scheduling option and format, and then session times are arranged according to availability. Patricia aims to help clients move from surviving to feeling more connected and capable.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How attachment work and practical skills translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating. It often involves talking through relationship histories and noticing how those patterns show up now. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small experiments to change behavior and mood. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with stress. EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that can help process distressing memories through guided bilateral stimulation and structured recall when trauma is a central issue.Finding the right approach is part of the work and is decided together. The therapist will listen to a person's goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest one or a blend of methods. Clients are invited to give feedback and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, while phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share brief updates, journal thoughts between sessions, or touch base during a busy day. These options provide flexibility for people juggling parenting, work, health concerns, or travel, and they let licensed professionals deliver consistent care across distances.
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