About Patty
Patty Seahlaigh is a licensed professional counselor with 26 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She offers steady, calm support for people trying to cope with depression, grief, trauma, and life changes. Patty focuses on practical steps that fit each person's situation.
She listens first and adapts her approach to what the person needs. Sessions often involve learning skills to manage emotions, practicing new ways to handle difficult thoughts, and working on clearer communication with others.
Background and approach
Patty uses methods that emphasize values, present-moment work, and exploring how early relationships shaped current patterns. Patty has worked with a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety and stress. Her practice includes addiction-related difficulties, anger and control issues, mood disorders such as bipolar, and struggles around parenting, adoption, and blended families.
She also addresses attachment-related problems, dissociation, and the emotional aftermath of domestic violence or natural disasters. Her style blends client-centered listening with goal-focused strategies. That means conversations are shaped by what the person brings while also including exercises and tools to try between sessions.
Patty aims to help people build resilience and make small, manageable changes that add up over time. Based in Missouri, Patty brings a trauma-aware perspective to therapy. She helps people sort through painful memories, repair patterns that no longer serve them, and find clearer paths forward.
Sessions are offered in English and designed to meet real-life schedules and constraints.
Approaches that guide online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current emotional patterns and helps people build safer ways of relating. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patty will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and pace. Together they will try strategies, notice what helps, and adjust the plan based on real results and preferences. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share brief updates, handle short moments of distress, or fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options make ongoing care more accessible for people balancing work, family, and other commitments.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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