About Patricia
Patricia (Trisha) Blackburn is a licensed social worker in New York with 20 years of experience. She draws on that background to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and depression. Trisha keeps language simple and focuses on practical steps during sessions.
She emphasizes each person’s strengths and choices as the starting point for change. Her work is rooted in listening first. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and asks questions that bring clarity.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and aimed at finding what actually helps in day-to-day life. Trisha uses gentle guidance rather than heavy lecturing. Trisha uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in front of her.
She combines this with mindfulness practices that help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. Together these approaches support coping with depression, grief, sleep issues, and stress-related problems. Across two decades she has supported people through many life transitions.
That includes career shifts, relationship troubles, caregiving strain, and the emotional fallout from trauma. She also addresses concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Trisha’s manner is steady and respectful.
She works in English and draws on practical tools that can be used between sessions. If someone wants straightforward support that honors their goals, she helps them map a path forward.
Client-centered and Mindfulness-based Online Support
Patricia uses client-centered therapy to guide sessions around what matters to each person. This approach means she follows the client’s lead, listens closely, and helps them build on their own strengths to solve problems like stress, depression, or parenting difficulties.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing skills. Those practices help people notice difficult thoughts or feelings without reacting, which can ease anxiety, improve sleep, and support coping with grief or caregiving strain.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a joint process. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative planning helps set clear, manageable steps to try between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see one another and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use isn’t possible. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers written communication. Together these options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Massachusetts, New York
- Languages
- English