About Patricia
Patricia Foyder-DeVoe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience in psychotherapy. She offers calm, practical care for people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and major life changes. Patricia talks plainly and helps clients find workable steps forward.
She trained at Fordham University where she earned a Bachelor of Science and then a Master of Social Work. Early in her career she worked in a community mental health clinic and moved into supervisory roles before shifting to independent practice in New York.
Background and approach
That mix of clinic and personal work shaped her flexible approach. Patricia favors a relationship-based way of working. She focuses on being genuine and creating a nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about worries.
Sessions aim to identify goals and build skills to manage emotions, behavior, and day-to-day stressors. She draws on several evidence-informed methods, mixing psychodynamic listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. That combination helps with anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, eating issues, and coping with illness or caregiving stress.
Patricia also supports people with substance use concerns, ADHD-related struggles, codependency, and challenges around intimacy and attachment. She offers therapy in English and Spanish and works with adults who want steady, compassionate help navigating change. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She helps clients set clear goals, practice new ways of coping, and track progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and working from the client's priorities. In sessions Patricia offers empathic, focused attention so clients can name what matters and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, mood, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication when feelings run high and relationships feel strained.Choosing the right approach is a team process. She will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend ways of working that fit. Over several sessions the plan can be adjusted based on what helps most.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video lets people preserve face-to-face interaction, phone works well when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat supports short check-ins, and messaging is useful for brief support and reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, continuity during life changes, and different ways to practice skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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