About Patrick
Patrick Elzey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices from Indiana. He brings 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and life transitions. Patrick offers calm, practical guidance and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and useful.
He uses common-sense tools to help people with everyday struggles. Sessions often focus on improving sleep, coping with grief, managing anger, and addressing attention or mood concerns. Patrick also works with issues like career stress, self-esteem, parenting strain, and caregiver burnout.
Background and approach
His style is collaborative and direct. He listens first, then helps people set small, manageable goals. Patrick mixes approaches to match each person’s needs rather than following a single script.
Over his career he has used methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Existential Therapy. These methods are applied in plain language to teach skills, shift unhelpful patterns, and strengthen coping tools. Sessions can include talking, skill practice, and short homework to try between meetings.
Patrick encourages clear steps and progress checks so people see what’s changing. He aims to make therapy practical and realistic for everyday life. People who prefer a down-to-earth approach and clear takeaways often find his style helpful.
He welcomes questions about how therapy will work and what to expect in early sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and learn ways to act toward those values even when emotions are strong. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building trust through respectful listening and empathy, which can help people who feel overwhelmed or unsure how to move forward.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Patrick will talk with you about your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. The process is collaborative - adjustments are made based on what helps you make progress.
Online therapy offers options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is good for in-depth conversations and eye contact, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or coaching between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English