About Patricia
Patricia Leigh is a licensed professional counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky with 12 years of clinical experience. She brings a long history of helping people through tough moments. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are.
Her work often centers on trauma, anxiety, mood concerns, and issues that affect daily life. Patricia draws on both talk-based and skills-focused methods. She uses Client-Centered techniques to build trust and focus on each person's goals.
Background and approach
She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Mindfulness practices are woven in to help with stress and emotional regulation. Her background includes years in caregiving and early childhood settings, which shapes how she understands development and relationships.
That experience makes her attentive to how life stage and past events influence current feelings and choices. She aims to treat each person as an individual, not a label. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth.
Patricia offers coaching-style guidance when helpful, and she works with issues such as parenting stress, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. She also addresses attention challenges, sleep and eating problems, and struggles with shame or isolation. Patricia emphasizes patience and respect in the room.
She encourages people who are nervous about starting therapy and helps them take clear, manageable steps. Her approach is collaborative and paced to fit each person's comfort level.
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. The approach helps people clarify their goals and feel understood, which can be useful for issues like self-esteem, life transitions, and caregiver stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and managing impulses by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for regulating intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be helpful for anger, mood instability, and problems with impulsivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That exploration is gradual and guided by what feels most useful in sessions.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work for brief check-ins or when someone needs flexible timing. These formats make it simpler to continue care across busy days and different locations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English