About Patricia
Patricia Lord is a licensed professional counselor with a decade of experience working with people who are facing major life stresses. She practices in Kansas and brings a calm, steady presence to conversations about anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. Patricia focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions.
Her background includes work with teens and young adults as well as adults navigating divorce, co-parenting, and step-parenting challenges. She also has experience addressing trauma and abuse, self-harm behaviors, and attachment-related worries.
Background and approach
This range helps her see how problems in one area of life can affect others. In sessions she listens first and adapts approaches to the person in front of her. She draws from client-centered work to build trust, uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, and employs mindfulness skills to reduce stress in the moment.
Solution-focused methods help set short-term goals and track progress. Patricia explains ideas in simple terms and gives concrete tools to try between meetings. She helps clients break large problems into smaller, manageable steps.
Parents find her practical when dealing with behavior, boundaries, or postpartum mood concerns. Overall, she aims to help people regain balance and find clearer ways forward. Conversations with her are goal-oriented but warm, with an emphasis on realistic change over time.
How her approaches work online and in sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening, understanding, and responding to what matters most to the client. It helps people feel heard and sets the foundation for change by prioritizing their perspective.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and stress.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These skills are useful for managing overwhelming emotions and staying present during parenting or relationship challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Patricia will discuss options and adjust methods based on a person's goals, needs, and what feels most helpful. Clients are involved in choosing which techniques to try and how to measure progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people connect face-to-face when a fuller conversation is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera helps. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching, or times when typing fits a schedule better. These formats make it easier to fit therapeutic work into busy family and work lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English