About Pattra
Pattra Dodd is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people through hard times. She practices in Florida and focuses on common problems like anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. Pattra uses plain language and practical steps to help people feel steadier in daily life.
Her approach is collaborative and person-centered. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and build clear strategies to reach those goals.
Background and approach
She often helps people who struggle with sleep, eating concerns, relationship stress, or the fallout of trauma and abuse. Pattra also supports people facing career shifts, caring for aging relatives, or wrestling with isolation and low self-esteem. She draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral work and skills-based therapies to address patterns that keep people stuck.
Motivational interviewing helps when clients want to shift habits or find a new direction. In session she listens, asks practical questions, and offers tools clients can try between meetings. Conversations aim to produce small, useful steps rather than abstract theory.
Many people find this hands-on style helpful when coping with life changes or compassion fatigue. Pattra offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works in English and sees clients in Florida.
To begin, people complete a short questionnaire and schedule a session according to availability.
How specific approaches work online and what to expect
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people set their own goals. Online sessions give space for honest conversation while the therapist reflects back what matters to the client and supports self-directed change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In remote sessions the therapist and client identify unhelpful patterns and practice small experiments and worksheets between meetings to shift those patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. When delivered online it can include coaching in mindfulness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance that people use in day-to-day situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit, and adjust based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where client feedback guides the plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions cut down on bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and step-by-step coaching easier between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats to find what suits them best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English