About Patricia
Patricia Brooks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and life changes. Patricia brings 11 years of clinical counseling experience and over 20 years in mental and behavioral health work to her practice.
She creates a calm, non-judgmental setting where people can talk through hard things. Patricia values building trust and offers a respectful atmosphere that encourages hope and small, steady change.
Background and approach
She explains ideas plainly and helps clients replace unhelpful thoughts with more useful ones. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clarify values.
Mindfulness and Emotionally-Focused techniques also appear in sessions when they fit a person's goals. Patricia works with individuals, and also has experience in family and group formats. She supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting stress, caregiver strain, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and issues tied to codependency or substance use.
She also helps with practical coping tools for sudden or ongoing life disruption. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Patricia offers evening and weekend times and accepts commercial insurance and employee assistance programs.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled from there.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Patricia commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online practice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety or depression active. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small actions that move someone toward those values even when uncomfortable feelings are present.She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. Those skills are useful for managing overwhelming emotions, relationship conflicts, and impulse-related concerns. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which approaches feel most useful for their goals and situation.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make attending easier. Video is good for conversational therapy and skill coaching, phone can fit a quick check-in or low-bandwidth option, and chat or text work well for shorter updates, practice prompts, or when written reflection helps. These formats allow evening and weekend scheduling to better fit busy lives and caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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