About Patsy
Patsy Guest is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience in Texas. She focuses on helping people cope with trauma, grief, anger, anxiety, and life changes. Patsy aims to make the first step feel manageable and respects the courage it takes to begin therapy.
She keeps sessions straightforward and calm. People can expect a listening space where worries and memories can be named without judgment. Patsy helps clients sort what matters now and what can wait until later.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on practical skills for handling stress and strong emotions. That can include breathing and grounding strategies, ways to approach difficult conversations, and planning small steps toward change. Patsy adapts methods to fit a person’s day-to-day life and responsibilities.
Patsy also addresses longer-term concerns like addiction, parenting stress, or coping after loss. She supports people dealing with caregiver strain, aging and geriatric issues, adoption and foster care challenges, and the effects of trauma related to domestic violence or first responder work. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Patsy uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule. She encourages anyone ready to try therapy to take the next step and start the matching process.
Evidence-Based Methods and Online Care
Patsy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical steps and emotional regulation. One common approach emphasizes grounding and breathing exercises to reduce overwhelming feelings and help with trauma and anxiety. These tools teach simple ways to bring down intense emotion so a person can think more clearly.Another useful method focuses on problem-solving and behavioral steps for depression, addiction, and stress. This approach breaks larger problems into small actions, such as planning daily routines, setting short-term goals, and practicing new coping skills. It helps people make steady progress without feeling overwhelmed.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Patsy works with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She will try different strategies and adjust the plan based on what helps most, so the work feels collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and use visual tools, while phone sessions can fit a walk or a break at work. Live chat and text messaging make it easy to check in between sessions or use brief support when schedules are tight. These formats give flexibility for different rhythms of life and make ongoing care easier to manage.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English