About Patricia
Patricia Fischer is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She works with adults who are facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and major life changes. Patricia practices from Florida and offers straightforward, practical support that focuses on daily coping and clearer thinking.
Her work combines client-centered conversations with skill-based tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing small behavior changes, and building emotional regulation skills. Patricia uses mindfulness and existential ideas to help people reconnect with values and meaning when life feels uncertain. Patricia supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar and other mood disorders, and those coping with isolation or complicated family dynamics.
She also has experience addressing aging and geriatric issues, intellectual disability, autism and Asperger syndrome, and hospice or end-of-life concerns. Practical problem-solving and steady emotional support are common parts of her approach. She communicates in English and works with people in Florida.
Patricia emphasizes collaboration - she listens first, then helps set clear goals and pick techniques that fit each person’s life. Her sessions aim to leave people with concrete skills they can use between meetings. For many, therapy with Patricia becomes a place to sort through strong feelings, try new coping strategies, and find a steadier way forward.
She frames progress as small, measurable steps rather than sudden fixes.
Therapeutic approaches online that focus on skills and meaning
Client-centered therapy is a conversational approach that prioritizes the person’s perspective. The therapist listens closely and helps the person set goals and find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for regulating intense emotions and improving relationships, which can help with impulsivity and mood swings.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Patricia will discuss goals and preferences during early sessions and recommend techniques that match those aims. The choice often blends approaches - for example using CBT for thought patterns and DBT skills for emotion regulation - based on what the person needs and wants.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical benefits. Video lets people see nonverbal cues and run full sessions. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easy to check in between sessions or to use brief, focused coaching when a quick skill practice is most helpful. Together these formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English