About Patricia
Patricia (Tricia) Ring is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of clinical experience. She practices from Indiana and offers a straightforward, people-focused approach to therapy. Tricia prioritizes clear, practical work with each person she meets.
Tricia earned her bachelor's degree in psychology and later completed a Master of Social Work. She spent many years in casework before moving to Indiana in 2017. Her background includes long-term clinical work across a variety of settings.
Background and approach
In sessions she leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other evidence-informed approaches. She helps people identify unhelpful patterns, try new coping skills, and set small, achievable goals. She also uses client-centered ideas to keep sessions grounded in each person’s priorities.
Tricia has worked with mood and anxiety concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, and relationship stress. She also focuses on issues such as adoption and foster care, family of origin concerns, gender dysphoria, and military-related issues among others. Her experience spans many identities and life situations.
Her style mixes practical problem solving with warmth and a bit of humor. Tricia emphasizes collaboration - she listens, offers tools, and helps people decide what fits. The aim is steady progress toward clearer thinking and better daily functioning.
How Tricia Uses Practical Therapies Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experience. It means the therapist follows what matters most to the client, listens closely, and helps shape sessions around those priorities. This approach is useful when someone wants to explore feelings and make decisions at their own pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches straightforward skills to change unhelpful thinking and build better habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, panic, and mood swings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift emotional patterns that affect relationships and attachment, useful for repairing connection and reducing reactive responses.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Tricia will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She combines tools as needed and checks in often to make sure the work feels useful and doable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, written reflection, or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English