About Patricia
Patricia Schofield is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship struggles, and parenting pressures. Her style is straightforward and steady, aimed at making the first step feel manageable.
She creates a calm space for people to talk through what matters most. Patricia listens without judgment and helps clients notice their strengths and hopes. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience with family conflict, domestic violence, substance misuse, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout of separation or blended family dynamics. Patricia draws on several therapeutic approaches.
She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and to build new habits. She brings in client-centered and attachment-based perspectives to strengthen relationships and self-understanding. Work with her often includes problem-solving, skills practice, and gentle coaching to meet life changes.
She aims to help people regain balance, reduce overwhelm, and move toward clearer goals. Starting therapy is presented as a step-by-step process that honors each person’s pace and priorities.
Therapy approaches you can access online
Patricia uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful actions even when emotions are hard to manage. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new coping skills that reduce anxiety and depressive patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, and then adapt methods together in a collaborative way. That means trying strategies and checking in to see what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill teaching and deeper dialogue. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule during a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching, or when writing thoughts feels easier than speaking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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