About Patricia
Patricia Hawkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years in mental health work. She began in Assertive Community Treatment, moved into case management, and has spent the last decade providing therapy. Patricia focuses on helping people who face both mental health and addiction challenges.
She uses a collaborative, client-centered style. Sessions center on what each person needs and how they learn best. Patricia aims for practical, manageable steps rather than long lectures.
Background and approach
Her day-to-day work includes talking through anxiety, depression, anger, and addiction issues. She also supports people dealing with relationship and communication problems, grief, sleep trouble, and life transitions. Patricia draws on experience with personality and mood concerns when relevant.
Patricia uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and client-centered methods. She adjusts techniques to fit each person’s goals and comfort level. Plans are shaped with the client, not imposed from the outside.
Clients can expect a straightforward, solution-focused stance. Patricia has worked as a supervisor and a direct service therapist, and she brings that practical perspective to sessions. Her aim is to help people build skills they can use between appointments.
She practices in Michigan and conducts sessions in English. People who want to begin usually follow a short matching process and then schedule sessions that suit their timing.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on what the person wants to change and how they learn best, which helps shape practical goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, a good fit for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, useful for anger, mood instability, and coping skills.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Patricia will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and daily routines to choose or blend methods. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is working and what needs to change, so the plan evolves with the client.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let therapists watch body language and have a fuller conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone wants a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or days when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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