About Patricia
Patricia Lord is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with ten years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works from Kansas and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and straightforward, with an emphasis on listening first and building goals together.
She helps people facing depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and those struggling with self-esteem or eating and food-related issues.
Background and approach
Patricia also supports people coping with life changes, postpartum depression, and mood challenges. She addresses relationship concerns, attachment issues, codependency, control problems, and common struggles like jealousy and infidelity. In sessions she uses client-centered methods to focus on the person’s perspective and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with stress and grounding, and solution-focused ideas are used to set clear, short-term goals. Patricia keeps language simple and practical so parents and young adults can follow along easily. Her background includes work across many relationship and family transitions, and she has significant experience with adolescents, teens, and young adults.
Patricia aims to create a calm space where people can talk through painful events, practice new responses, and build better daily routines. People who choose her can expect clear steps, gentle challenge, and an emphasis on what helps in day-to-day life. She guides clients toward manageable changes so they can feel more steady and in control.
Online approaches that focus on thinking, calm, and solutions
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person’s own perspective and experience. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters to the client so sessions stay relevant and personal. This approach helps when someone needs understanding and a chance to make sense of their feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and build new patterns that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT is often helpful for worry, panic, and changing habits around food or behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different tools. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the client’s life and needs.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see each other and use screen tools, phone is lower bandwidth and can be easier to schedule, while chat or messaging can support quick check-ins and ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, and family life and let people choose what feels most usable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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