About Patricia
Patricia Searels is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with nearly three decades of practice. Her style is direct, caring, and practical, aimed at helping clients make steady progress toward their goals.
She has worked in universities, independent practice, and nonprofit centers. That range means she has experience with college students, athletes, young professionals, and adults facing adjustment challenges like moving, new parenthood, job changes, and divorce.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with depression, trauma, grief, and substance concerns. In sessions she builds a respectful, honest relationship and uses that connection as the basis for change. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral work, solution-focused strategies, and motivational techniques to create straightforward plans.
Sessions are individualized so each person’s goals guide the process. Patricia favors some live voice or video time combined with messaging when helpful. She aims to teach practical tools clients can use between sessions to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Her work is goal-oriented and collaborative, with progress checked regularly. Based in Florida, she brings 28 years of clinical experience to her practice. Sessions are offered in English and shaped around what each person needs to move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Patricia uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by building new skills and routines.She also uses EMDR for people processing traumatic memories and strong emotional reactions. EMDR involves structured processing and can reduce the intensity of distress tied to past events. The Gottman Method is used when relationship patterns are a concern and focuses on communication skills and rebuilding trust between partners.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, values, and comfort level. Sessions may combine techniques so the plan fits what the client needs right now.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging can fit quick check-ins or shorter sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain contact between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English