About Patricia
Patricia Gillett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of clinical experience in Arizona. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship struggles, ADHD, and self-esteem concerns. Her manner is patient and compassionate, and she aims to make hard conversations feel manageable.
She draws on a mix of approaches to shape care around each person’s needs. Patricia uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
She also relies on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the person's values and priorities. Mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies are part of her work when stress, trauma, or persistent worry get in the way of daily life. Dialectical behavior skills are used when emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are goals.
Patricia tailors these methods so they fit what the person actually wants to change. Sessions are collaborative and practical. Patricia works with people to set clear goals and small steps they can try between appointments.
She pays attention to strengths and uses those as starting points for change. Her background includes long-term clinical work across a range of concerns such as parenting strain, career stress, chronic illness, and identity-related challenges. Patricia focuses on building coping skills, improving communication, and increasing life satisfaction, one realistic goal at a time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Patricia often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward what matters most. ACT is useful when anxiety, avoidance, or life transitions are getting in the way of daily goals.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to break down unhelpful thinking patterns and develop realistic behavior changes. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, sleep and habit-related concerns because it gives concrete tools to try between sessions.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Patricia will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest a plan. That plan can change over time as progress is made or priorities shift, and the client helps guide those decisions.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video is useful for more in-depth work and visual connection, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging are good for brief check-ins or continued support between appointments. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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