About Patricia
Patricia Foyder-DeVoe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She focuses on clear, practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and ADHD. Her style is warm and straightforward so clients can talk about hard things without feeling judged.
She trained at Fordham University and began her career in community mental health. Early supervisory roles gave her experience managing complex cases and supporting other clinicians.
Background and approach
Later she moved into independent practice and has worked with individuals facing grief, trauma, eating concerns, addictions, and major life changes. Patricia blends psychodynamic ideas with active, skills-based work. She listens for patterns from the past that affect present behavior.
She also teaches tools to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning, for example mood regulation and communication strategies. Sessions are collaborative. She helps people set clear goals and then chooses methods that fit each person’s needs.
That may look like focused problem solving one week and deeper reflection the next. Patricia offers services in English and Spanish and sees people who live in New York. She works with issues including parenting stress, career concerns, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, and intimacy-related problems.
Her long practice aims to combine practical steps with thoughtful exploration so clients can move forward.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Patricia uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and reflecting what matters to the person, which helps build trust and clarify goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, then suggest methods that fit. That means trying a few techniques together and adjusting them until they feel useful for the client.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and access help from different places, while keeping the focus on steady progress and workable skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- 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
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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