About Patrick
Patrick Smith, LPC, uses practical, person-focused therapy to help people manage stress and anxiety. He listens first, then works with clients to build steps that fit their life. Many come for relief from worry, relationship strain, or struggles with addiction and grief.
Sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress. With 15 years of practice in Pennsylvania, Patrick draws on approaches that center on acceptance, behavior change, and healthy connection.
Background and approach
He helps people name what matters to them, reduce unhelpful reactions, and practice new ways of responding. Treatment is conversational and task-oriented rather than overly technical. Patrick pays close attention to how early attachments and relationship patterns shape current problems.
This helps when dealing with abandonment, codependency, jealousy, or communication problems. He also brings tools for handling impulsivity, anger, and substance concerns in day-to-day life. Many clients work on improving intimacy, parenting challenges, or blended family issues.
He offers practical strategies for managing guilt, shame, and feelings of emptiness. Patrick also supports people facing career stress, low self-esteem, and grief after loss. Therapy sessions include talking through difficult memories, practicing mindful awareness, and using behavioral steps to test new habits.
Goals are set together, and progress is reviewed along the way. The overall aim is to help people feel more capable in handling life’s ups and downs.
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking action toward them, even when difficult thoughts and feelings show up. It helps with anxiety, low motivation, and patterns that keep people stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce worry and depression through step-by-step practice. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build safer, more trusting ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patrick will collaborate with each person to choose methods that suit their needs and goals. The plan can shift over time based on what is helping and what the client prefers, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support shorter updates, check-ins between sessions, or people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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