About Patricia
Patricia Foyder-DeVoe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She offers calm, practical therapy that helps people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and major life changes. Patricia speaks English and Spanish and works with adults in New York.
Her work is grounded in psychodynamic ideas while drawing on client-centered, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, and emotion-focused techniques. She focuses on building a trusting relationship first, then helps clients set clear goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and aimed at making real-life changes. Patricia has a long history in community mental health and independent practice. Early in her career she moved into supervisory roles and then broadened her work to include individuals and young adults.
Over the years she has supported people dealing with depression, eating and food-related issues, trauma and abuse, grief, and addiction. She also helps people address parenting stress, caregiver burden, chronic illness or pain, and career-related concerns. Attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, and communication problems are regular topics in her work.
Patricia offers coaching-style support when clients want practical steps toward change. In sessions she listens without judgment and encourages honest conversation. She and the client pick methods that fit the person’s needs, combining short-term strategies and deeper exploration.
The aim is clearer choices, better coping, and more satisfying relationships.
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Patricia often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people make practical changes. Client-centered therapy means the therapist listens closely and follows the person's pace, which can be useful for building trust and tackling relationship or self-esteem concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new actions, which helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills.She may also draw on dialectical behavior therapy when someone needs skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT offers concrete tools for managing intense feelings and improving communication in close relationships. Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process; the therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful as they work together.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let people have fuller conversation and read facial cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for quick, written exchanges and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and practical for day-to-day needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish