About Patricia
Patricia (Trish) Woodson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of clinical experience in Virginia. She draws on long experience across community mental health, schools, and independent practice to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship concerns. Trish aims to create a warm and accepting space where clients feel heard and can begin to make practical changes.
She uses straightforward, goal-oriented techniques to help people manage symptoms and make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on small, concrete steps a person can take between meetings. Trish pairs practical strategies with a supportive, encouraging style to help clients build confidence and momentum. Her background includes work with parenting issues, blended families, adoption and foster care topics, and attention concerns such as ADHD.
She has also supported people coping with trauma, anger, intimacy-related issues, and life transitions. That variety has shaped a flexible approach that adapts to what each person needs. Trish relies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy as core tools.
She explains techniques plainly, practices them together with clients, and checks in on what’s helping. The aim is to find realistic strategies that fit a person’s life and goals. Clients meet with Trish by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Sessions are offered in English and take place with a Virginia-licensed clinician.
How Trish Uses CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Trish commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thought and behavior patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them with simple experiments, and practicing new responses between meetings.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to zero in on strengths and small, immediate steps that move a person toward their goals. This approach is useful when someone wants quick, practical changes for issues like stress, relationship problems, or life transitions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Trish discusses goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before deciding which methods to try. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as needed so the work fits each person’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy schedule. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging lets people reflect in writing or fit therapy into a break at work. These options aim to increase flexibility and accessibility while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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