About Patricia
Patricia Manning is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma, and family-related concerns. She offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. Patricia speaks plainly and centers each session on the person in front of her.
She brings 11 years of clinical experience across child welfare, foster care, residential treatment, psychiatric settings, and shelters. That background shaped her focus on trauma, attachment, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Patricia also works with issues like depression, grief, anger, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is grounded in client-centered work and attachment-based ideas. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and EMDR when appropriate.
Sessions mix practical skills training, mood and behavior tracking, and space to process painful memories. Patricia emphasizes simple, usable strategies. She helps people learn coping skills, set boundaries, and shift unhelpful patterns.
She also supports parents and caregivers who feel exhausted or unsure how to manage family challenges. People who choose her can expect direct guidance paired with empathy. Patricia will challenge self-sabotaging choices while celebrating small gains.
Her goal is to help people build steady routines, clearer relationships, and a greater sense of purpose.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in how people relate to others. It looks at early relationship experiences and helps people build safer, more fulfilling connections. This approach is useful for attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and relationship difficulties.Client-centered therapy emphasizes getting to know each person and following their pace. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so clients feel heard while they find their own answers. This method can help with self-esteem, life purpose, and general coping with change.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. CBT is often paired with practical homework and tracking between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, history, and comfort level. That might mean blending attachment ideas with CBT skills or adding DBT techniques for emotion regulation.
Online therapy offers flexibility with multiple formats: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between meetings or communicate in writing when that feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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