About Patrick
Patrick Jones is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with 16 years of experience who helps people manage stress and anxiety. He works with adults facing addiction, trauma, sleep problems, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He also supports people dealing with grief, career strain, parenting stress, and difficulties with self-esteem.
Patrick takes a collaborative, straightforward approach. He listens first and helps clients name what matters most to them. Sessions focus on practical steps and skills you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
He centers the person's goals rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all plan. His practice draws from several well-known methods. Patrick uses parts of cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thoughts and acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and motivate change.
He also incorporates mindfulness practices and elements from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation when needed. For people who have experienced trauma, he can include techniques informed by eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to reduce distress tied to painful memories. He frames these tools as options to try together rather than fixed prescriptions.
Patrick works with people in California and offers sessions in English. He emphasizes clear, simple steps and aims to make each session feel practical and doable. If someone is seeking help for anxiety, sleep trouble, or addiction, he focuses on steady progress and realistic strategies.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It is useful when anxiety, avoidance, or life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building practical coping skills for mood, sleep, and anxiety problems. EMDR techniques are used when trauma memories cause ongoing distress and the person wants to reduce that intensity; these methods are introduced carefully and only when appropriate.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process where techniques are tried, adjusted, or combined until they fit the client’s situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people see facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to stay connected between sessions and to get short, timely support while managing a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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