About Patricia
Patricia "Tricia" Conlon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Florida. She has 24 years of experience helping people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, addiction, stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Tricia works with individuals and couples on intimacy, self-esteem, career questions, parenting concerns, and issues related to LGBT identity.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She uses methods that help people notice their patterns, practice new skills, and make concrete changes.
How Patricia works
Sessions aim to be collaborative and down-to-earth, with room to talk through immediate problems and past hurts. Tricia trained in marriage and family therapy and has worked across agencies, healthcare settings, and educational programs. That experience includes clinical roles in oncology, psychiatry, substance use care, dementia services, and integrative medicine.
She has also taught virtual classes for the College of Health Sciences and Nursing at the University of Phoenix. She brings added experience supporting first responders and other high-achieving professionals after traumatic events. Tricia also provides dementia-specific training and support for caregivers and healthcare teams.
People come to her for help with bereavement, caregiver stress, blended family issues, infidelity, and codependency. In sessions she blends approaches such as acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused perspectives, cognitive strategies, emotion-focused techniques, and client-centered talk. The pace is set by the person's needs, with practical skills and reflective conversation to help move forward.
Patricia lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, grief, and making life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer, more connected ways of relating when trust or intimacy feel damaged.Choosing a method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and what feels most useful. Together they can try different approaches and adjust based on what works in real life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people have a fuller conversation and read facial cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing helps someone process feelings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and caregiving schedules.
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