About Patricia
Patricia (Tricia) Ring is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with 28 years of clinical experience. She brings a steady, practical approach to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and related concerns. Tricia works with adults and emphasizes clear, usable strategies in short, direct conversations.
Tricia earned her degrees in Connecticut and relocated to Indiana in 2017. She centers much of her work on cognitive behavioral ideas while also drawing on client-centered and emotionally-focused approaches.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term casework and a mix of community and clinical settings. In sessions she uses straightforward tools clients can try between meetings. Those tools include thought work, behavior changes, and mindfulness practices.
She also pays attention to relationship patterns and emotional responses that keep problems going. Tricia has experience with trauma, bipolar and mood disorders, panic, and post-traumatic stress. She also helps people facing relationship strain, grief, sleep problems, career stress, and identity concerns such as gender dysphoria and LGBT issues.
Her style is collaborative and practical. She aims to help each person identify small steps toward change and to use humor when it helps. Tricia encourages people to bring their story and goals, and she supports them in building workable strategies.
Therapy sessions may include discussion, simple behavioral experiments, and mindfulness exercises tailored to the person's needs. The focus is on clear next steps a person can use between sessions to feel more in control.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Tricia uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and shift thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and depression. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying small behavioral experiments to test new responses. It often helps with panic, worry, sleep problems, and mood regulation.She also uses client-centered methods that focus on listening, reflecting what matters to the person, and building on the person’s strengths. This approach is helpful when someone needs support making sense of their story or deciding next steps. Emotionally-focused work helps people recognize and name their feelings and how those feelings affect relationships and daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they choose tools and pace the work so it fits the client’s needs and comfort level.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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