About Patricia
Patricia (Trisha) Blackburn is a licensed social worker in New York with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and depression. Trisha speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for people who are nervous about reaching out.
She centers sessions on the person's own knowledge of their life. That means she listens first and helps people build on strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Conversations tend to be practical and easy to follow rather than full of jargon. Trisha uses Client-Centered Therapy to shape sessions around an individual's priorities. She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and respond more calmly to stress.
These approaches are used to address a range of concerns such as sleep problems, coping with life changes, relationship strain, and issues linked to trauma or addiction. Over two decades she has supported people dealing with caregiver stress, aging and geriatric questions, postpartum and pregnancy-related issues, and financial or work-related worries.
She also works with those facing discrimination, intellectual disability, autism spectrum concerns, and first responder stress. Her style is collaborative and steady. Trisha helps people set small goals, try new coping steps, and track what helps.
She explains options clearly so people can choose what fits their life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Trisha draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy means she shapes sessions around what matters most to each person, listening closely and helping people use their own strengths to tackle problems. Mindfulness Therapy focuses on teaching simple awareness skills so people can notice stress reactions, reduce reactivity, and try new responses to anxiety or mood shifts.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily life, then adjust methods together. That collaborative decision helps match techniques to what actually feels doable for the individual.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers not to be on camera. Short check-ins or ongoing work can fit into chat or text exchanges for convenience. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or other busy days while keeping focus on clear, practical steps.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Massachusetts, New York
- Languages
- English
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