About Patricia
Patricia Pattan-O'Neal meets people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and life changes. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, addictions, ADHD, and work-related strain. Patricia presents a calm, direct presence aimed at helping people feel understood and move forward.
Patricia is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, which she uses to shape practical supports. She listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning simple tools for managing mood, managing anxious moments, and improving daily routines. Her style balances warmth with clear direction. She offers both gentle encouragement and firm accountability when needed.
That approach helps people build new habits and try different ways of responding to old problems. Patricia draws on client-centered methods to treat each person as the expert in their own life. She also uses cognitive behavioral approaches to identify unhelpful patterns and practice new skills in the moment.
Therapy focuses on real-life changes, not abstract theory. With eight years of experience, Patricia supports people across many concerns, including caregiver stress, chronic illness, and grief. She works by starting where someone is and mapping small steps forward.
Her aim is practical progress one session at a time.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing the person first and responding with acceptance and respect. In practice this means sessions begin with the client’s priorities and the therapist reflects and clarifies those concerns to shape the work. This approach helps with struggles like grief, isolation, and low self-esteem by validating experience and building self-understanding.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is about spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. CBT provides clear tools for anxiety, panic, mood problems, and patterns that get in the way of day-to-day functioning. It often includes short exercises and small behavioral steps between sessions.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Patricia will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Over a few sessions she adjusts the balance of conversational, supportive work and skill-based practice so it meets your pace.
Online formats make that collaboration flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared screen tools for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option for focused check-ins. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief coaching, quick coping reminders, or scheduling between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and try different ways of connecting while working toward clear goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Utah, Maine
- Languages
- English