About Patricia
Dr. Patricia Frueh is a Michigan psychologist with nearly three decades of experience helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, approachable presence and listens for a person's strengths as well as their struggles.
Her style is warm and respectful, and she aims to make sessions a place where people can speak honestly and be heard. With 28 years of work in psychotherapy, she has supported people facing depression, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, grief, and relationship or parenting challenges.
Background and approach
She also works with people dealing with sleep and eating difficulties, bipolar mood issues, panic attacks, social anxiety, and questions about life purpose or midlife transitions. Her clinical work draws on several evidence-based approaches. She uses elements from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
Dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices are incorporated when emotional regulation or distress tolerance skills are helpful. Patricia tailors sessions to each person's needs and preferences rather than following a single path. She pays attention to resilience and practical strengths people already have, and she adapts techniques to fit real-life situations.
People can expect clear, down-to-earth conversation and concrete strategies to try between sessions. She provides therapy in English and works remotely with people in Michigan. Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approach-driven care available online
Dr. Frueh commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then collaborate on which strategies to use. Sessions may combine approaches over time so techniques match what the person needs in everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video is useful for fuller interaction and nonverbal cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and skill practice easier between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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