About Patricia
Patricia Fischer is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and self-esteem struggles. Patricia also supports individuals facing relationship and family concerns, parenting stresses, grief, trauma, and challenges connected to ADHD.
She blends clear, practical talk with active listening so people feel heard and understood. Sessions often include goal-setting, skills practice, and short-term tools for coping with strong emotions.
Background and approach
Patricia uses approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness to help people change patterns that no longer serve them. Her background includes two decades of clinical work in community and outpatient settings. That experience shaped a straightforward style that aims to reduce overwhelm and build daily routines that work.
She draws from dialectical behavior therapy ideas when emotion regulation is needed and existential ideas when people question meaning and direction. Patricia helps people with a wide range of concerns beyond mood and anxiety, including impulsivity, isolation, caregiving and aging issues, autism-related needs, and complicated family situations. She also supports people dealing with domestic violence effects, grief, and end-of-life transitions.
Sessions are offered in English and available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions that fit their lives.
How therapy approaches fit into online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with openness and respect and helping people set their own goals. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and clarify what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal interactions, which can help with impulsivity and intense moods.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client review goals, try techniques, and adjust as needed. Sessions are collaborative, with options chosen to match the person's needs, pace, and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text let people check in between sessions or use brief coaching-style support. These options make it easier to keep regular momentum and apply new skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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