About Patti
Patti Hampsten is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois who uses a client-centered style to help people manage stress and anxiety. She keeps conversations relaxed and practical so clients can talk through what matters most. Her tone is down-to-earth and focused on building trust from the first session.
She begins by accepting where people are without judgment and validating their feelings. That foundation guides a collaborative plan that fits each person's goals.
Background and approach
Patti often starts with motivational interviewing to clarify what a client wants to change. As work continues, she draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies to teach specific skills. Those approaches help with panic, mood shifts, addictive behaviors, and coping with life changes.
She also uses solution-focused ideas when clients want concrete next steps and small wins. Patti has three years of experience as an LCPC and has a background that includes community mental health and addiction counseling. She also provides clinical supervision for local problem-solving court clients, including participants in drug court, mental health court, and veterans court.
Her areas of focus include depression, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and body image issues, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. Patti welcomes people who want straightforward tools and steady support while they work toward clearer goals.
Approach and online therapy options
Patti commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy as core parts of her work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and building a trusting relationship so people can name what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and manage mood.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy when clients need skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. These approaches are presented in plain language and turn into usable tools during sessions. Finding the right mix is part of the process, and Patti works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day needs.
Online therapy with Patti is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets you work through exercises and see facial cues, phone sessions can fit during a work break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text is useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support. These formats give flexibility so people can continue therapy while juggling school, work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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