About Patricia
Patricia Donovan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Texas. She brings 20 years of experience and a calm, practical style to sessions. Patricia focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns.
Patricia uses straightforward, goal-focused methods so people can see progress in daily life. She listens for what matters most and helps clients try small changes that add up. Conversations often include exploring family of origin patterns, codependency, and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy with client-centered listening. That mix helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new behaviors, and strengthen emotional connections where they exist. Patricia also brings life experience as a spouse and parent, and she encourages people to draw on spiritual beliefs when that fits their values.
She keeps sessions focused on concrete next steps and coping tools that work between meetings. People come to Patricia for help with anger, career stress, parenting strain, bipolar or mood concerns, trauma and abuse recovery, and building self-esteem. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at making everyday tasks feel more manageable.
Online approaches that focus on action and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions by shifting focus toward meaningful behavior rather than trying to eliminate difficult feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In sessions clients learn simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thoughts and practice new responses that reduce distress over time.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, focuses on identifying and expressing underlying emotions and improving emotional connection in relationships. It is often used when intimacy, attachment, or relationship patterns are a central concern.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Patricia will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, adjusting plans as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or lower bandwidth situations, and text or live chat can work for quick check-ins or brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while adapting to daily life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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