About Lanita
Lanita Sunshine Patterson greets people with warmth and straightforward care. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and invites clients to take small steps toward better days. Her style is direct and compassionate, offering space to talk without judgment.
She encourages people to give themselves grace while they heal. Lanita has eight years of counseling experience in South Carolina. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and big life changes.
She also supports those dealing with addictions, including drug and alcohol concerns, and helps with low self-esteem and career stress.
Background and approach
Her approach blends practical tools with a person-centered attitude. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and stay motivated.
Lanita also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing emotions and improving coping. Solution-Focused techniques are used to set clear, achievable goals and build on strengths. Sessions focus on real-life steps clients can try between meetings.
Expect a collaborative relationship where goals and methods are decided together. Lanita aims to validate concerns while challenging patterns that hold people back. She frames work as a walk alongside each person, not a one-size-fits-all prescription.
How these approaches work in online sessions
Lanita often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns in their thoughts and change unhelpful thinking. CBT focuses on practical exercises and simple behavioral experiments that can be tried between sessions to reduce anxiety and low mood.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to build momentum for change. That method relies on open questions and reflection to help people identify personal reasons for change and strengthen commitment to goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lanita will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she adapts tools and techniques so they fit the person's life and pace, making decisions together rather than prescribing a single path.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to connect: video calls for deeper conversations, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for quick updates or brief support. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule and keep progress moving between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English