About Patricia
Patricia Carrington is a Licensed Professional Counselor and clinical social worker practicing in Wisconsin. She brings seven years listed experience as an LPC and a long history in social services and trauma counseling. Patricia aims to build calm, practical working relationships and to help people move forward through hard times.
She keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. Patricia uses a solution-focused stance alongside client-centered methods so clients help shape the work.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths, then helps set small, achievable goals to test what works in daily life. Her practice addresses anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, anger, and addiction-related problems. She also supports people facing major life changes, caregiver strain, body-image issues, and challenges linked to attachment or abandonment.
Patricia draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when they fit the situation, and she uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing skills to support change. Sessions aim to teach practical skills people can use between meetings, such as manageable coping techniques and clearer communication strategies. She offers evening and weekend hours to accommodate working schedules.
Patricia welcomes conversations about how therapy might fit into a client’s life and invites prospective clients to begin with a short intake and scheduling step.
How her approaches guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the client’s own goals. It creates room for people to say what matters most and to shape the work around their priorities. This approach is useful for building trust and clarifying what a person wants to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It teaches simple, practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by testing new behaviors and tracking results over time.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name emotional patterns that affect relationships. It can be helpful for intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and repairing attachment ruptures by practicing new ways of responding to strong feelings.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Patricia will work collaboratively to select methods that match the client’s needs, goals, and preferences, and she will adjust the plan as progress or new challenges arise.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows a fuller interaction like an in-person meeting. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement or camera use is not desired. Live chat and text messaging support short check-ins, ongoing problem-solving, or moments when a written conversation fits the day better. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English