About Patricia
Patricia Heiner is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Colorado with 15 years of experience. She works with English and Spanish speakers and brings steady support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and other life challenges. Patricia focuses on practical steps clients can use right away.
She earned a bachelor’s in psychology and a master’s in clinical mental health from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Her years in the field include work with civilian and military populations across a wide range of concerns such as trauma, domestic violence, addiction, and parenting difficulties.
Background and approach
In sessions she keeps the tone accepting and encouraging. Patricia aims to create an emotionally safe space where clients can talk through hard topics, practice new skills, and set achievable goals. She balances empathy with straightforward tools to manage symptoms and day-to-day problems.
Patricia uses approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, existential discussion, and mindfulness. She adapts methods to match what a person needs and prefers, focusing on what helps in real life. People often come for help with grief, family problems, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping concerns, and coping with big changes.
Patricia supports each person’s pace and priorities while helping them build clearer choices and more effective routines.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Patricia often combines client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work means the therapist follows the person’s lead, listens closely, and helps them name what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive place to sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical skills for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and repetitive patterns that cause stress. Patricia also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when strong emotions or relationship tensions make daily life harder; DBT-based techniques teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then try methods that match those needs. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video lets people work face-to-face from home or work, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or more frequent brief contact. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy week.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English, Spanish