About Patricia
Patricia Frost is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with thirty years of experience helping people navigate depression, anxiety, self-esteem challenges, and trauma. She offers a respectful, compassionate approach and tailors conversations and goals to each person. Patricia aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supportive.
Patricia uses therapies that focus on the person's own goals and strengths. She listens closely and helps people spot patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
Practical strategies are offered alongside space to talk about hard feelings and past wounds. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including bipolar moods, panic and social anxiety, grief and end-of-life questions, and identity issues related to LGBT experiences. Patricia also helps with isolation, communication struggles, and finding a clearer sense of life purpose.
She combines talk-based approaches with skills training when useful. This can include ways to manage overwhelming feelings, rethink unhelpful thoughts, and build steady daily habits. Motivational techniques are used to help people stay moving toward their goals.
Patricia practices in Virginia and brings long experience from many different care settings. Conversations are practical, grounded, and paced to what each person needs. She supports people who want steady, realistic progress toward feeling better and more in control.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Patricia uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's goals and values. Sessions begin with listening and making sure the plan reflects what matters most to the client. This approach helps when someone wants a supportive space to talk through feelings and decision points.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact. CBT offers clear steps to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills, which can help with anxiety, panic, and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for regulating intense emotions and managing crises, giving practical tools for staying steady when feelings run high.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options and try strategies that fit the client's needs and preferences. Goals, pacing, and methods are decided together so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for shared conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit work, caregiving, and daily life while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English