About Patricia
Patricia Nelson is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction. She offers calm, straightforward support and practical tools aimed at everyday life. Patricia is based in New York and works in English.
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on clear goals and real-world steps, not jargon. Patricia listens first, then helps people find strategies that fit their routine and values.
Background and approach
She uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing intense emotions and on Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work grounded in each person’s experience.
Across 25 years she has worked with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and career changes. She also supports people facing body image issues, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and decision-making challenges. Patricia blends talking, skills practice, and goal-setting.
Sessions may include mindfulness exercises, problem-solving, and motivational strategies to help people move forward. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where small changes add up over time. To begin, people use the site matching process to connect and schedule sessions.
Patricia aims to create a respectful space where clients feel heard and can try new ways of coping.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and coping
Patricia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot patterns of thinking and behavior that increase anxiety and stress, then practices alternative responses. She also brings Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills focused on emotional regulation and distress tolerance to manage intense feelings and crises. Client-Centered Therapy frames the work around each person's priorities, keeping sessions focused on what matters most to them.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Patricia discusses goals and preferences during early sessions and adjusts methods as needed. Together the therapist and client try different tools and track what helps most over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing, short reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while focusing on practical coping skills and steady progress.
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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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