About Patricia
Patricia Palmer is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan who brings 15 years of experience to her work. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Patricia uses practical strategies so people can feel more steady and capable in day-to-day life.
She takes a strengths-based, down-to-earth approach. Sessions focus on clear goals and useful skills. Patricia draws on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance strategies to reduce overwhelming thoughts.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-informed ideas to improve how people connect with others. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including parenting strain, career questions, ADHD-related challenges, and recovery from trauma and abuse. She helps people who struggle with guilt, shame, loneliness, or low self-worth.
Panic symptoms, postpartum depression, and trouble finding life purpose are also areas she addresses. Patricia favors a collaborative style. She listens, helps set practical steps, and adjusts tools to what fits each person.
Sessions can include learning coping skills, practicing new ways to respond to stress, and working through painful memories at a comfortable pace. People who choose her can expect clear communication about goals and options. She uses a mix of client-centered care and evidence-informed techniques to help people build resilience, improve relationships, and move toward meaningful change.
Evidence-informed approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on accepting difficult feelings while clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action. It can help when unwanted thoughts or avoidance get in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how relationships and early connection patterns affect current reactions and communication, which can help with intimacy and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try tools, see what fits, and adjust the plan so methods match the person’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support frequent brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and people who prefer typing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working with licensed professionals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English