About Patrick
Patrick Jones is a licensed professional counselor with 16 years of experience. He focuses on common, urgent concerns like stress, anxiety, addiction, sleep problems, trauma, and depression. He also helps people dealing with ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and career stress.
He approaches work from a respectful, down-to-earth stance. He treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions aim to be practical, with clear steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
His session style mixes structured skills and more open, client-led conversation. He uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and from acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and gradual change. Mindfulness and dialectical skills are used to manage strong emotions.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing may be offered for trauma work. Patrick believes change comes through steady effort and real-world practice. He helps people set small, achievable goals and track what works.
He also addresses co-occurring problems like substance use, sleep disruption, or caregiver stress so progress is realistic. Clients can expect a supportive and straightforward approach. Sessions focus on concrete tools, clearer thinking, and building routines that fit daily life.
He works with people in California and brings attention to practical solutions for day-to-day challenges.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It often focuses on small, concrete steps to move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions to change patterns that create distress. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep troubles, and attention-related difficulties. EMDR involves structured processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and can be offered when trauma is a central concern.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Patrick will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's goals and comfort level. That process may include trying different exercises or mixing approaches until a practical rhythm emerges.
Online sessions give flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and EMDR-style work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, coaching-style support, or homework feedback between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and to continue steady progress without travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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