About Patricia
Patricia Manning is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people feeling overwhelmed. She speaks plainly about stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma, and life changes. Patricia aims to make therapy understandable and useful, one step at a time.
She brings eleven years of counseling experience and a long history of working with children and adults affected by trauma and family disruption. Early work in child protection, foster care, adoptions, residential treatment, psychiatric settings, and domestic violence services shaped how she helps people now.
Background and approach
Her training includes a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling completed in 2008. In sessions she blends client-centered care with evidence-based tools. That means listening first, then offering concrete skills from cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior techniques, attachment-focused ideas, and EMDR when appropriate.
Patricia focuses on building safety, emotion regulation, and clearer thinking for everyday problems. She often helps people manage panic, low mood, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and career or life-purpose questions. She also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, attachment concerns, dissociation, and effects of domestic violence or divorce.
Patricia aims to work collaboratively. She sets clear goals, teaches coping strategies, and gently challenges patterns that get in the way of progress. People who want practical tools and steady support will find a direct and compassionate approach in her practice.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Patricia often draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and helps people build safer, more reliable ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood and can find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptom patterns, and what days or tools feel manageable. Together they decide whether to focus on emotion regulation skills, thought work, attachment repair, or trauma-processing techniques like EMDR when it fits the plan.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and exercises. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let clients send updates, do brief check-ins, or practice skills between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- 11 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Oregon
- Languages
- English