About Patricia
Patricia (Trish) Woodson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia. She has spent 25 years helping people sort through stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship challenges. Trish aims to help each person feel clearer about their next steps and more able to handle everyday pressures.
Trish has worked in community mental health, independent practice, and school settings. That range of experience shaped a practical style focused on real-life change.
How Patricia works
She meets people where they are and concentrates on what can be done now. Her sessions are warm, accepting, and encouraging. Trish uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to help people identify unhelpful patterns and try different ways of coping.
Conversations often include concrete strategies to test between sessions. Trish often helps with family and parenting concerns, blended family issues, adoption and foster care matters, and ADHD. She also supports people facing career stress, intimacy issues, depression, bipolar challenges, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Additional areas include grief, body image, cancer-related stress, and recovery from domestic violence. Her work includes attention to family of origin problems, forgiveness, infidelity, and isolation or loneliness. Trish emphasizes practical steps so people notice small improvements.
She encourages steady progress and adapts methods to meet each person's goals and situation.
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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
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How Trish Uses Practical Therapies Online
Trish commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy when meeting with people online. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches simple, testable strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on strengths and concrete steps toward goals, making it useful for coping with life changes, relationship problems, and practical family issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Trish collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She checks in and adjusts techniques as needed so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat or texting can suit quick check-ins or days when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy routines and to keep steady support during transitions.
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