About Patrick
Patrick Barrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 12 years of experience. He uses clear, practical methods to help people manage stress and anxiety and to make life feel more manageable during hard changes. He favors techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to keep sessions focused and useful.
Sessions often look like setting small goals, testing new ways of thinking, and trying actions that fit the person’s values.
Background and approach
Patrick also addresses addiction concerns, including drug and alcohol addiction, and helps people working through depression, bipolar concerns, or ADHD-related struggles. He helps with issues like shame, guilt, social anxiety, and feelings of isolation by breaking problems into manageable steps. Motivation and career questions are another common focus.
He uses motivational interviewing ideas to uncover what matters to a person, then builds on that to set realistic next steps. The work is practical and pace-driven to match where a person is right now. Sessions are offered by a clinician licensed in South Carolina and North Carolina.
Patrick conducts therapy in English and frames progress as gradual, collaborative work. He encourages people to try small changes, reflect on what works, and adjust goals as needed.
Therapeutic approaches in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what they value and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, life purpose questions, and coping with ongoing stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and encourages experimenting with new thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Solution-Focused Therapy is brief and goal-oriented, emphasizing practical steps and what works now to move forward.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, explain different methods, and recommend a mix of techniques that suit your needs. You and the therapist can try an approach, review progress, and adjust the plan together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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