About Patricia
Patricia Pena is a bilingual clinician who offers help in English and Spanish for people struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship challenges. She has 26 years of experience and practices from a place of respect and compassion. Patricia aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Her work is practical and person-focused. She listens first, then adapts conversations and plans to match each person's goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are centered on what matters to the client and move at a pace that feels comfortable. Patricia draws on a mix of approaches, including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, mindfulness techniques, and motivational interviewing. She uses these to help people reduce anxious thoughts, manage intense emotions, and build healthier patterns in relationships and parenting.
Over more than two decades she has worked across early childhood, adolescence, and family-related settings, which informs how she thinks about relationships and life transitions. That background helps when addressing issues like abandonment, communication problems, guilt, isolation, and mood shifts.
People who choose Patricia can expect straightforward conversation, practical skills to try between sessions, and adjustments to the plan as progress is made. She encourages small steps and celebrates steady changes rather than quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience first and focuses on listening and understanding. Online sessions using this approach give space to tell your story and shape goals together, which helps when dealing with relationship strain or parenting stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In video or phone sessions CBT work often includes practicing thought records, behavior experiments, and brief homework between meetings to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers emotion regulation and coping tools for intense feelings and interpersonal difficulty. Online DBT-style work can introduce specific skills like distress tolerance and mindfulness exercises that you can try during the week.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist collaborate to pick techniques that match needs and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and worksheet work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging lets someone share thoughts between sessions. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
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- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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