About Eugenia
Eugenia Patru is a licensed social worker practicing in Michigan with 35 years of professional experience. She holds a Licensed Master Social Worker credential and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and brings a steady, practical approach to therapy. She focuses on everyday problems that weigh people down.
These include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, addictions, grief, and trauma. She also helps with work and career questions, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and isolation or loneliness.
Background and approach
In sessions she aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through their thoughts and feelings. Conversations are direct but compassionate. She helps clients name what is happening and choose small, manageable steps forward.
Eugenia uses methods drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Those approaches help identify thinking patterns, build coping skills, and manage strong emotions in the moment. Her work often addresses practical issues like communication problems, control struggles, guilt and shame, money worries, and coping with life changes.
She also provides support around hospice and end-of-life concerns, post-traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue. People who want clear tools and steady guidance may find her style helpful. She aims to support and empower clients as they take steps toward a more manageable and satisfying life.
Using CBT and DBT Online to Build Practical Skills
CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and behavior patterns that cause trouble in daily life.DBT focuses on managing intense emotions and improving coping skills in the moment. It teaches skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication, which can be useful for relationship and impulse-related concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients and the therapist work together to see what helps and what needs changing.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video offers face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Louisiana
- Languages
- English