About Patricia
Patricia (Trish) Woodson has worked as a licensed professional counselor since 2001. She practices in Virginia and draws on 25 years of experience to guide people through hard times. Trish focuses on clear, practical steps people can use right away.
She aims to create a warm, accepting space where someone can feel heard and start making changes. Trish has provided counseling in community mental health, schools, and independent practice. That range means she is familiar with common stressors at home, work, and school.
Background and approach
She helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, and the everyday strain of parenting and blended family life. Her approach emphasizes problem-solving and changing unhelpful thinking. Trish uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns that keep problems going and to practice new ways of coping.
She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set small, achievable goals and build momentum toward change. Trish often works with concerns such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, body image, and career stress. She also supports people facing divorce, adoption and foster care challenges, domestic violence aftermath, or cancer-related stress.
She uses straightforward techniques rather than technical language so people can apply them between sessions. Sessions with Trish typically focus on concrete tools, honest conversation, and steps to reduce distress. She helps people sort priorities, repair strained relationships, and strengthen coping skills.
People who want a practical, encouraging counselor may find her style a good fit.
Online approaches that focus on change and small steps
Trish uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot thought patterns that increase stress and depression. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and practicing new responses to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy, which concentrates on setting clear, short-term goals and building on what already works. This approach is useful for people who want to see progress quickly and focus on practical solutions rather than long explorations of the past.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Trish will discuss goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges with each person and then recommend or adapt techniques that fit. She adjusts pacing and tools so the plan matches a person’s needs and life demands.
Online sessions offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or screen time is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be helpful for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, or school schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English