About Patricia
Patricia Pardy uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Patricia Pardy, LMHC, LCPC brings 20 years of counseling experience and focuses on practical steps people can take right away. She works with concerns like parenting strain, relationship conflict, grief, and career uncertainty.
Sessions are aimed at clear goals and steady progress. Patricia blends talk therapy with skills-based work when it helps. She often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques and dialectical behavior tools are used to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Her practice also addresses specific areas such as ADHD, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and caregiver stress. Patricia supports people working through identity and LGBT concerns, as well as issues connected to kink, BDSM, and alternative sex culture.
She helps individuals sort through blended family challenges and communication problems. Patricia favors a collaborative process. She helps set goals, tracks progress, and adjusts methods as needs change.
Sessions may include practical exercises, homework, and skills practice between meetings. Services are offered remotely from New York. Patricia brings two decades of experience and a straightforward style that aims to make therapy useful and understandable.
She encourages people to take the first step toward clearer thinking and calmer functioning.
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-centered therapy emphasizes the client's own goals and perspective. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps people decide what matters most, which is useful for stress, relationship concerns, and parenting strain.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches ways to spot and change unhelpful thinking, and it often includes short exercises or homework to practice new skills between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be helpful for anger, impulsivity, and intense mood swings by teaching concrete coping strategies.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Patricia will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online formats offer practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to keep a running log of thoughts and progress. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent with a person's life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, Massachusetts, Utah, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Kansas, Rhode Island, Indiana, Arkansas, Oregon
- Languages
- English