About Patricia
Patricia Breshears is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 32 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, or addiction concerns. Patricia aims to create a calm space where someone can talk and make small, doable changes.
She begins by building trust and listening closely to each person's story. Sessions focus on practical steps and on recognizing strengths the client already has.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at solving the problems that feel most urgent. Patricia mixes approaches to match what a person needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to notice unhelpful thoughts, solution-focused methods to set short-term goals, and narrative techniques to reframe painful experiences.
Mindfulness practices are used to help people manage intense emotions in the moment. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, and process addictions. She also supports people dealing with caregiver strain, blended family stress, and life purpose questions.
Patricia pays attention to how past family experiences affect present choices. Patricia is based in Illinois and holds the LCPC credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She works with each person to set achievable goals and to track progress over time.
How Patricia adapts therapeutic methods for online care
Patricia commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change thinking patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to see what helps.She also draws on mindfulness practices to teach simple skills for calming the body and returning attention to the present moment. These techniques can be useful when anxiety or strong emotions feel overwhelming. Motivational interviewing is used to support people who want to make changes but feel stuck, by exploring values and personal reasons for change in a nonjudgmental way.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Patricia treats therapy as a collaboration and will adapt methods based on a person's goals, comfort level, and progress. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter conversation is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible, shorter check-ins and a way to stay connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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