About Patricia
Patricia Prendergast is an LCSW with 28 years of clinical experience who helps people facing addiction, trauma, grief, and parenting strain. She meets clients with a direct, warm manner and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Patricia keeps language clear and avoids clinical jargon so parents can understand what to expect.
Her approach combines attention to attachment patterns with client-centered listening. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Patricia works
Motivational interviewing helps when people face change and feel stuck. Patricia has a long history of working on issues tied to trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress, and burnout from caregiving roles. She also supports people dealing with eating concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and mood disorders.
Additional areas she addresses include adoption and foster care matters, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps. Patricia will help a client map out what feels most important and agree on concrete actions.
She often blends storytelling and narrative techniques to reframe difficult events and restore a sense of agency. Based in Illinois, Patricia offers an approachable style that balances empathy with practical tools. She works with people who want direction on coping, decision-making, and rebuilding after loss or upheaval.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities, with the therapist reflecting and supporting self-directed change. This approach is useful for building trust and clarity about goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through concrete exercises and skill practice, which transfer easily to video or phone sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs evolve.
Online work offers real practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face connection when travel is difficult. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging suits shorter check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or people who prefer writing. Together these options make it simpler to keep continuity and apply new skills between meetings.
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