About Patti-Rae
Patti-Rae Arocha helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She meets people where they are and focuses on small, practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Patti-Rae encourages parents working through parenting challenges and people who want to build self-esteem and confidence.
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, with four years of professional experience in Louisiana. Her work often involves talking through what feels most urgent and then trying straightforward strategies to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Sessions can include setting simple goals, learning coping tools, and practicing ways to communicate more clearly. Patti-Rae also supports people navigating adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, fertility issues, and postpartum depression. She addresses feelings such as guilt, shame, emptiness, and isolation, and helps with panic attacks and impulse control when those show up.
The approach is collaborative and respectful of each person’s story. Patti-Rae frames clients as the experts on their lives and offers guidance that matches their needs and pace. She aims to help people notice small changes that add up to real shifts in mood and function.
People can expect a direct but warm style focused on problem-solving and self-compassion. Patti-Rae works in English and sees clients across Louisiana. Her practice offers multiple ways to connect so therapy can fit into busy days.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Evidence-based techniques focus on practical skills that reduce symptoms and improve daily function. One common approach is teaching coping and grounding skills for anxiety and panic - this includes simple breathing exercises, grounding steps, and short behavioral strategies to lower intense feelings. These tools are useful when panic or overwhelm gets in the way of daily tasks.Another helpful method is task-focused problem solving for life changes and parenting stress. This involves breaking larger problems into smaller tasks, trying doable experiments, and adjusting plans based on what works. It helps with decision-making, motivation, financial stress, and caregiver strain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That plan is adjusted over time so it fits the person’s needs and pace in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and teaching skills visually, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English