About Patrick
Patrick Martinez is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 12 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. He offers straightforward support for issues like addiction, grief, low self-esteem, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Patrick adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs. He listens without judgment and aims to make therapy practical and usable. Sessions focus on small steps people can take between meetings to feel steadier and more in control.
How Patrick works
His work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's goals and lived experience. He also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage strong emotions. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven in when they help people reconnect with values and sustain change.
Patrick has helped people navigate parenting stress, career transitions, grief, and recovery from trauma and abuse. He also supports those facing commitment and communication challenges, abandonment or attachment issues, and concerns tied to addiction or eating and food-related problems. He works with a wide range of emotional and practical struggles.
People who prefer direct, respectful conversation and a focus on doable strategies tend to find his approach helpful. He emphasizes collaboration, clear goals, and steady progress. If someone wants a counselor who listens first and then builds a plan together, Patrick offers that kind of care.
Patrick lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Patrick works with
The areas below are the ones Patrick selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How his approaches work online
Client-centered work starts by focusing on the person's goals and what matters most to them. In practice this means the therapist listens first, reflects what he hears, and helps shape a plan that fits the person's life and priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Online CBT sessions often involve tracking patterns, testing new behaviors between sessions, and using short exercises to shift unhelpful thinking that fuels anxiety or depression.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. These skills can be practiced in brief coaching-style messages or reviewed together during video or phone sessions to build steady coping tools.
Patrick treats choosing an approach as a team effort. He will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful. Clients help set the pace and goals so work stays relevant and manageable.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging works for shorter check-ins, skill coaching, or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around daily life.
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