About Patti-Rae
Patti-Rae Arocha is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana who helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, and big life changes. She works with individuals navigating parenting concerns, self-esteem struggles, and moments when motivation feels low. Her tone is supportive and straightforward, aimed at people who want practical help right now.
Patti-Rae believes each person knows their own story best. She focuses on building on existing strengths and practical steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to emphasize clear goals and small changes that add up over time. She has four years of professional experience in counseling. During that time she has supported people coping with loss, panic attacks, postpartum mood changes, and anxiety that affects everyday functioning.
She also offers help around adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, fertility concerns, and issues tied to guilt or forgiveness. Patti-Rae uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address problems like isolation, control issues, and trouble with communication. She aims to help clients make decisions that match their values and long-term goals.
Work in sessions may include learning coping skills, practicing emotion management, and trying new behaviors between meetings. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She encourages clients to take small, manageable steps and reflects on what works.
People who want practical strategies and steady encouragement may find her style a good fit.
Approaches and how online sessions support progress
Many clients benefit from familiar, evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and action. One common approach emphasizes learning concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic - breathing and grounding exercises, short behavioral experiments, and steps to reduce avoidance. These tools help when anxiety feels intense and interferes with daily tasks.Another useful method centers on identifying unhelpful beliefs and testing them with small changes in behavior. This approach helps people shift self-criticism, build self-esteem, and make decisions that match personal values. It is practical work aimed at changing what you do and think in everyday moments.
Finding the right combination of methods is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match techniques to each person's needs and goals. Together they try approaches, adjust based on experience, and focus on what produces real improvements in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions can fit a lunch break or low-bandwidth connection, and live chat or text messaging supports quick check-ins or shorter, more frequent contact. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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