About Patricia
Patricia McCullough is a licensed clinical social worker with nearly four decades of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma, low self-esteem, and depression in straightforward, practical ways. Patricia works with each person respectfully and without judgment.
Her approach is calm and steady, aimed at real-life improvements. Patricia uses a mix of proven methods to fit each person’s needs. She often draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect current feelings.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. When trauma is involved, she may include approaches that address painful memories directly. Sessions are conversational and goal focused.
Patricia listens first, then helps set clear steps people can try between meetings. She pays attention to challenges like caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and problems with communication and boundaries. She also offers support around adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, and divorce or separation.
Patricia’s work is practical and paced to each person. She helps people build skills for day-to-day life, including managing strong emotions and reducing harmful coping like substance use. She emphasizes collaboration so the plan fits what the person actually wants.
Licensed in Pennsylvania as an LCSW, Patricia brings 39 years of professional experience to her practice. She conducts sessions in English and offers several online formats to make continuing care easier to fit into busy lives.
Approach and online options for therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and patterns. It helps people understand why certain relationships trigger strong emotions and how to build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It provides skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and practice different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that addresses disturbing memories and their emotional hold, helping reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and preferences, and together they will choose or combine methods that make the most sense. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress is tracked so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, between-session coaching, or moments when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity of care when in-person meetings are not possible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English