About Patricia
Patricia Carr is a licensed professional counselor in Louisiana with 12 years of experience supporting people who face depression, stress, anxiety, trauma, and struggles with addiction. She focuses on practical problem solving and helping people notice the strengths they already bring to hard moments. Patricia emphasizes a straightforward, respectful approach that honors each person's choices and pace.
She listens first to understand what feels most urgent. Sessions often start by identifying one or two manageable goals.
Background and approach
Patricia uses clear, step-by-step methods to help people reduce overwhelming feelings and build coping skills that fit daily life. Her work includes helping people navigate grief, relationship strain, career stress, and major life changes. She also supports people facing issues such as low self-esteem, anger, eating concerns, and bipolar mood challenges.
Addiction and trauma are areas she has worked with extensively. Patricia draws on a mix of client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral tools, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused techniques. She adapts these approaches to what the person needs in the moment rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Many clients find it useful when therapy focuses on small, concrete steps they can try between sessions. Patricia helps people track progress and change those steps as needed. Her goal is to help people build more steady coping, clearer decisions, and a greater sense of control over daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. In online sessions this means the therapist asks questions, reflects what they hear, and helps the person shape goals that matter to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, uses practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Online CBT often includes setting small home tasks, tracking progress between sessions, and practicing coping skills in daily life. Mindfulness therapy helps people notice thoughts and body sensations without reacting. Online mindfulness can include guided breath work, short exercises, and learning to pause before responding.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. If something does not feel helpful, adjustments are made so the plan stays practical and useful.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coping reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English