About Patricia
Patricia Wolfenden uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people navigate hard seasons. She is a Florida-licensed clinician with LMHC and LMFT credentials and 25 years of experience. Patricia speaks English and brings a steady, respectful presence to her work.
She invites clients to name what matters and to use their strengths to move forward. Her work often focuses on addictions, relationship strain, family conflict, and the impacts of trauma and abuse.
How Patricia works
She also helps with grief, stress, anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem. Practical concerns like career change, chronic illness, fertility stress, and compassion fatigue are part of her caseload as well. Patricia draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to tailor care.
Sessions center on clear goals, skills practice, and steady reflection rather than jargon. She encourages small, doable steps that fit a client's life. Over time she has supported people dealing with codependency, adoption and foster care questions, blended family issues, and family of origin problems.
She also has experience addressing domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, and first responder issues. Patricia aims to balance compassion with practical tools. Starting therapy with her means mapping priorities, trying skills together, and adjusting the plan as progress emerges.
She asks questions, listens carefully, and helps people choose actions aligned with their values. The focus is on real change that fits everyday life.
Patricia lists 8 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Online approaches tied to practical goals
Patricia uses methods that focus on values, relationships, and helpful thinking. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful reactions, which often helps with anxiety, addiction-related habits, and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in close relationships to reduce conflict and increase connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, history, and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted over time so the chosen approaches actually help the person reach their aims.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are helpful when someone needs a quieter, less bandwidth-heavy option. Live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a written format feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family, or medical appointments while keeping focus on progress and practical tools.
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