About Patricia
Patricia (Pat) La Plante is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 31 years of experience. She focuses on grief, trauma, crisis response, and related concerns. Pat has worked in hospitals, independent practice, and crisis settings, bringing practical experience to short- and long-term struggles.
Pat’s background includes responding as a crisis counselor after hurricanes, mass shootings, natural disasters, and other large-scale events. She has supported people facing end-of-life care and those grieving the loss of loved ones.
Background and approach
Her years in mobile crisis units and community agencies inform a calm, steady approach when situations feel urgent. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Virginia Tech, a Master of Arts in Counseling, and a Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation. A minor in nutrition has informed her earlier work with eating disorders and concerns about health and food.
In sessions Pat listens first and helps people map what’s getting in the way. She describes her role as guide, mentor, and encourager rather than someone who fixes problems for clients. Together they look at how difficulties started and what practical steps might move a person forward.
Her toolkit draws on Client-Centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused work, and Jungian ideas. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, caregiver strain, relationship and communication issues, and life transitions. Pat offers video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging sessions and works with international clients.
She aims to help clients find direction, process grief, and build coping skills for the next chapter.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience at the center. The therapist listens deeply, reflects feelings, and helps clients name what matters most so they can make clearer choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical steps to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping after trauma.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select and adjust methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying a way of working, checking how it feels, and changing course when something isn’t helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see one another for fuller interaction, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular contact, maintain progress, and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
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- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English