About Patricia
Patricia Pattan-O'Neal is a Licensed Master Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on stress and anxiety among other concerns. She brings practical support and steady guidance for people facing worry, panic, grief, depression, and big life changes. Patricia uses clear language and straightforward tools so people can start feeling more in control.
Patricia keeps sessions direct and humane. She listens first, then works with each person to find useful strategies.
Background and approach
She balances gentle encouragement with firm accountability when a client needs it. This means she will both validate what you are feeling and offer steps you can try between sessions. Her work draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes understanding each person’s experience and building on their strengths.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Together these approaches are used to address anxiety, panic, trauma, and mood concerns. Patricia has eight years of professional experience and holds LMSW and LCSW credentials.
She practices in Michigan and offers sessions in English. Her background includes supporting people with relationship and intimacy issues, addiction concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and parenting strain. She aims to make the first steps manageable.
In sessions she may teach mindfulness, communication skills, and simple behavioral tools. The emphasis is always on practical change that fits into daily life and moves people toward clearer goals.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing and understanding each person without judgment; online sessions let Patricia listen closely and help clients identify their strengths and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is about noticing unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood; in online work this often includes practical exercises and homework to try between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Patricia will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques over time so the work fits the person's pace and needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, notes, or between-session support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while tailoring how sessions happen to daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Utah, Maine
- Languages
- English
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