About Patrick
Dr. Patrick Mathieu is a psychologist licensed in Minnesota who uses a blend of practical approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. He brings three years of professional experience and focuses on common life challenges like parenting strain, depression, ADHD, grief, and compassion fatigue.
Dr. Mathieu speaks English and aims to offer straightforward, respectful care. In sessions he often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy with narrative and psychodynamic ideas.
Background and approach
That means he helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and patterns, understand important relationships from the past, and tell their story in ways that make sense now. He keeps explanations simple and focuses on concrete steps people can try between visits. Dr.
Mathieu pays attention to background factors such as adoption and foster care, attachment issues, family of origin concerns, and multicultural influences. He also supports people coping with social anxiety, phobias, abandonment themes, guilt, shame, and issues tied to intellectual disability. His approach is adaptable to the person’s needs rather than following one fixed method.
Sessions may include short-term, solution-focused work for immediate problems or deeper exploration of longstanding patterns when that fits the person’s goals. He frames therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted over time. Dr.
Mathieu uses talking, practical exercises, and written reflections to build skills and insight. He works online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and people schedule sessions after completing a brief matching questionnaire.
Therapy approaches that translate well online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and connections. Online sessions can help people notice how attachment patterns affect parenting, grief, or relationship worry and then try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It works well for anxiety, stress, and social fears because clients can practice skills between sessions and report back during video or messaging check-ins.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether short-term, solution-focused steps or deeper attachment and narrative exploration fits their goals. That choice is guided by the client's needs, preferences, and what they want to change, and it can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video gives face-to-face conversation for skill practice and emotion work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text messaging lets people check in between sittings, share short updates, or have a quick problem-solving exchange. These options make therapy more flexible and help fit care into real life routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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