About Patricia
Patricia Johnson-Haney uses client-centered methods to help people navigate difficult life moments. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in Wisconsin with seven years of practice. Patricia meets people where they are and focuses on their strengths when planning next steps.
She often supports people dealing with addictions and substance use concerns. She also works with those facing trauma, abuse, grief, and depression. Patricia pays attention to how life events and relationships affect mood and day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Her sessions tend to be practical and goal-focused. She draws on solution-focused strategies to break big problems into small, manageable steps. Motivational interviewing is used to increase readiness for change when needed.
For people dealing with intense emotional reactions, she integrates techniques from dialectical behavior therapy, teaching ways to manage strong feelings and improve coping. When trauma is central, trauma-focused methods guide the work toward processing distressing memories and responses. Patricia approaches care as a collaboration.
She listens first, then suggests tools and plans that fit each person’s life. She explains options clearly and checks in often to adjust the plan based on what is helping. Practical matters such as scheduling and session format are handled directly during intake.
Sessions can include video calls, phone visits, live chat, or text-based messaging to match each person’s logistics and preferences.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on a person’s strengths. It involves reflective listening, gentle questioning, and working at the client’s pace to clarify values and goals. This approach helps with depression, grief, and when someone needs a steady, supportive space to talk.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. It includes distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills that can be practiced between sessions and applied to crises or panic attacks.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It uses guided conversation to resolve mixed feelings about substance use or other difficult behaviors and can increase readiness to take small steps toward healthier habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked and needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging lets people send updates or questions between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use different formats as needs change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English