About Patricia
Patricia Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 20 years of experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, and the challenges that come with parenting and life transitions. Her approach is respectful and collaborative, and she focuses on each person's strengths.
Patricia emphasizes practical steps people can use between sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral methods to address unhelpful thought patterns and mindfulness practices to build steady coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are grounded in a client-centered stance that keeps the person's goals at the center of the work. Her background includes work in schools and community settings across rural and urban areas. That variety has shaped a flexible style that adapts to different daily realities.
Patricia pays attention to cultural and life-context factors when shaping a plan for each person. In sessions she listens first, then helps identify small changes that add up. She also uses narrative and Jungian perspectives when people want to understand patterns in their life story.
Motivational interviewing is woven in to support shifts when people feel stuck. Patricia supports people facing complex concerns such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, caregiving stress, and issues linked to adoption, foster care, or family of origin. She aims to help people feel more capable and regain a sense of direction.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. In practice this means the therapist follows the person's pace, reflects what they hear, and helps the person set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It works well for stress, panic, low mood, and everyday coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try approaches and adjust the plan as needed so sessions fit current needs and daily life demands.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and practice skills between appointments.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Patricia address?
What is her therapy style like?
How much experience does she have?
Where is she licensed and based?
Which languages are available for sessions?
Can international clients work with her?
What session formats are offered?
How does cost and scheduling work?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.