About Patricia
Patricia Brickman is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Washington who has provided therapy for three years. She brings a background that includes inpatient psychiatric work, residential eating disorder care, and community outpatient programs. Patricia focuses on clear, practical support for people dealing with anxiety and related stresses.
She favors a client-centered way of working that starts with the person's experience. Sessions aim to help people describe what they are feeling, notice patterns, and try small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Patricia often pairs this with emotion-focused techniques to help process strong feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are added when people need tools for emotional regulation and managing intense moments.
Her approach pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns that shape how people connect with others. Patricia draws on experience with trauma, eating and body image concerns, mood differences, grief, addiction, and parenting stress. She also supports work on career direction, life transitions, and issues of shame or codependency.
The goal is practical steps and clearer self-understanding. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. People who want goal-focused work, skill building, and a therapist who listens for what matters may find this approach useful.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. Online sessions can help a person notice how they relate to others and try new ways of communicating or setting boundaries. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and pace, offering a space to talk things through while the therapist follows the client's lead. This approach helps people clarify values and make decisions that feel right to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. CBT techniques work well in brief exercises and homework between sessions to build new habits.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend which methods to emphasize. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity after life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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