About Patricia
Patricia Brooks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri. She brings 11 years of counseling experience and more than 20 years working in mental and behavioral health settings. Patricia focuses on creating a calm, respectful space where people can begin to sort through stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship pain.
Her style is direct and practical. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
Mindfulness exercises and acceptance-based ideas are woven into sessions to help with intense emotions and ongoing worry. Patricia also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused work when emotion regulation or relationship patterns are central concerns. That mix helps people build skills for communication, manage strong feelings, and repair closeness when it has been strained.
She has experience supporting people with addiction, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and issues tied to caregiving, divorce, or blended families. Patricia offers individual and group formats and can help people who are coping with major life changes or the fatigue that comes from caregiving and helping roles. Appointments are offered with flexible scheduling, including evenings and weekends.
Patricia works with commercial insurance and employee assistance programs and uses an approach that emphasizes hope, practical skill-building, and steady progress.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. Online ACT sessions focus on simple exercises that help people accept difficult feelings while making practical life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions; online CBT uses short tools and homework to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication, which can be taught in brief modules during video or chat sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that fit each person’s needs and preferences. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to emphasize skills practice, emotion-focused work, or acceptance-based strategies as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and role-play practice. Phone sessions can be a good option for lower-bandwidth needs or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging make quick check-ins, homework prompts, or short coaching-style conversations easier to fit into a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English