About Patricia
Patricia (Patty) Earl is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nearly three decades of experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief and trauma, and navigate life changes. Patty also supports those facing addiction, eating concerns, mood challenges, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Patty keeps sessions calm and down-to-earth. She listens closely and responds with clear, practical steps. Her style favors simple tools that people can use between meetings to handle strong emotions and daily stressors.
Background and approach
Her work blends client-centered care with evidence-based techniques. Patty draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and on dialectical behavior skills for emotion regulation. She also incorporates mindfulness practices to help people reconnect with bodily sensations and steady attention.
Patty’s background includes long clinical experience in Louisiana, and she has worked with people impacted by trauma, grief, cancer, HIV/AIDS, and end-of-life concerns. She has helped clients address ADHD, bipolar mood issues, compassion fatigue, and relationship strain. Therapy with Patty tends to be collaborative and paced to each person.
She talks through goals, teaches coping skills, and practices techniques in session so people can build confidence in daily life. Many clients find this hands-on approach useful when managing anxiety and reclaiming routine. To begin, she uses straightforward intake conversations to learn what matters most and to set achievable next steps.
Sessions focus on real problems and useful strategies, not jargon.
How Patty’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. In practice this means the therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them clarify what matters. This approach is helpful for people trying to sort out life purpose, relationship concerns, or self-esteem issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions teach simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thoughts and to practice new behaviors. CBT can be especially useful for managing anxiety, mood problems, and stress by giving concrete coping steps.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for handling intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It includes breathing and grounding techniques along with ways to tolerate distress without making things worse, which many people find helpful for emotion regulation and impulsive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patty will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped before, then try methods that fit. She treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process and adjusts strategies over time based on what works.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people practice skills together in real time, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can support brief check-ins or ongoing prompts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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