About Patricia
Patricia Carrington is a Licensed Professional Counselor and clinical social worker based in Wisconsin. She combines counseling and social work experience to help people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. Patricia draws on a calm, down-to-earth manner to build trust and keep conversations focused and practical.
Patricia's background includes many years in social services, case management, and trauma counseling. She started working with women and children affected by abuse and trauma and has kept that experience central to her practice.
Background and approach
Over time she moved into independent practice while keeping a focus on workable solutions for everyday problems. Her style is nonjudgmental and solution-focused. Sessions aim to set clear goals and look for small, doable changes clients can make between meetings.
Patricia uses approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally focused ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to match what feels right for each person. She helps people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, addiction concerns, anger, and identity-related questions. Patricia also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiving burdens, attachment concerns, and ADHD-related struggles.
Conversations are practical and paced to the person’s needs. Patricia has seven years listed experience as a therapist alongside a longer career in social services. She offers evening and weekend times to fit busy schedules and aims to respond to messages within 24 hours.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
Approaches that translate to online care
Patricia uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy as core parts of her work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding your perspective, and shaping sessions around what matters most to you. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them.She also brings in emotionally focused ideas when relationship patterns are important and mindfulness techniques to help manage stress and anxiety. These approaches aim to help people notice patterns, set small goals, and practice new responses between sessions. Patricia will discuss options and work with each person to choose approaches that fit their needs and goals in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit a quick check-in or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into evenings, weekends, or a busy day without extra travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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