About Patricia
Patricia Green-Metz is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She works with clients facing depression, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, grief, and addiction. Patricia also supports those dealing with identity concerns such as gender dysphoria and LGBT-related stress.
Her tone is straightforward and practical, aimed at people who need relief soon. Patricia keeps sessions focused on what matters now.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps clients set small, clear goals. In conversation she uses concrete tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage intense emotions. Her work is client-centered and respectful of cultural differences.
Patricia pays attention to how prejudice, discrimination, and multicultural factors affect everyday life. She aims to help people make sense of those pressures and find ways to cope. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in her approach.
Mindfulness tools help people calm racing minds and improve sleep. Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants to change patterns around substance use, eating, or other habits. Patricia describes the therapy process as collaborative.
She helps clients weigh options, try new strategies, and adjust plans when needed. The pace is set by the person seeking help. Based in Louisiana, Patricia offers a practical mix of skills and listening.
She aims to help people build clearer thinking, better emotion management, and more workable daily routines.
Practical approaches for online care
Patricia uses client-centered therapy to follow the person's lead and focus on what they say matters most. This approach emphasizes listening, respect, and setting goals together, which helps people feel understood before they try new strategies.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. CBT gives clear exercises and steps to reduce worry, improve sleep, and manage mood shifts. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used for intense emotions and distress tolerance, offering simple techniques for calming down and staying present.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Patricia collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals and daily life. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing reminders between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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