About Patricia
Patricia Nelson is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. She works with adults who are coping with career strain, relationship troubles, grief, and life transitions. Patricia practices from New York and combines practical skills with a respectful, down-to-earth manner.
Her sessions are conversational and goal-focused. She listens first and then helps clients set small, doable steps. Patricia draws on cognitive-behavioral methods to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach self-calming skills. Patricia brings experience supporting people with trauma and abuse histories and those navigating intimacy or parenting concerns. She assists people managing sleep and eating difficulties, bipolar mood concerns, and challenges tied to ADHD.
Her background also includes work with grief, caregiver stress, and chronic health issues. People often work on setting boundaries, improving communication, and building coping tools for anger or emotional overwhelm. She tailors the pace and focus to each person’s needs and goals.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants help clarifying change and staying motivated. Patricia describes her style as warm and interactive. She emphasizes respect and sensitivity while helping clients practice skills between sessions.
If someone is ready to try a different approach to old problems, she offers steady guidance and practical next steps.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Patricia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is concrete and skill-based, which often fits well into short exercises between sessions. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple breathing and attention practices that reduce stress and improve focus. Mindfulness work can be practiced in daily life and reviewed during sessions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Patricia will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, and then suggest an initial plan. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps most, so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a camera isn’t practical. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework accountability, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York, California
- Languages
- English
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