About Patricia
Patricia (Patty) Earl helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and grief. She also supports those coping with life changes, addictions, eating concerns, ADHD, mood disorders, and intimacy or self-esteem struggles. Patty brings a calm, attentive presence to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings.
She has worked in counseling for many years and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential (LPC). Her style is grounded and steady; she listens closely and responds with care.
Background and approach
Patty blends talk-based work with attention to how emotions feel in the body. Patty often uses client-centered methods that follow the person's pace and priorities. She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Mindfulness techniques are introduced to increase awareness and emotion regulation. For people dealing with trauma or intense emotional pain, Patty incorporates trauma-focused ideas and elements from dialectical behavior therapy to help manage strong feelings. She has long experience supporting grief, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and people impacted by serious illness such as cancer or HIV/AIDS.
Sessions are delivered online in multiple formats to fit different needs. Patty explains options clearly and works with each person to shape a plan that fits their daily life and goals.
Approach and Online Options for Emotional Healing
Patty commonly uses client-centered therapy to follow each person's goals and pace; this approach focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people clarify what matters to them. It is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and make decisions.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical skills to change patterns of thinking and behavior. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with life changes. In addition, elements of dialectical behavior therapy are used to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings become intense.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patty collaborates with people to test methods and adjust what she uses based on needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying different tools in session and picking what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is a concise way to check in, and messaging supports short updates between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can move forward even when routines are tight.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English