About Patricia
Patricia Schofield is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience who helps people facing addiction, relationship strain, grief, and depression. She speaks plainly and keeps sessions focused on practical steps. Patricia aims to make the first step into therapy easier for those who feel unsure or overwhelmed.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about hard feelings. Her approach highlights a person’s strengths, hopes, and practical abilities.
Background and approach
Conversations are aimed at understanding what matters most and at finding workable changes. Patricia draws on several evidence-informed methods to guide sessions. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation skills.
Attachment-based ideas help when relationship patterns and early bonds affect current life. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Patricia helps people set achievable aims, practice new ways of coping, and track progress over time.
She also offers coaching-style support when clients want help with career decisions or life transitions. Patricia is licensed in Illinois as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW. She works with concerns that often overlap, like stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, codependency, and trauma.
Her style is steady and practical, geared toward people who want clear tools and supportive guidance. To begin, Patricia encourages a simple first step to connect and explore what to work on together.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Patricia uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to clarify the values that guide meaningful action. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to build practical behavior changes that reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patricia collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress is made so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and real-time skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief coaching, check-ins between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit care into work, caregiving, or school schedules while keeping therapy collaborative and focused on real-world changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English