About Douglas
Douglas Patrick is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. He works with clients on motivation, confidence, coping skills, and a wide range of concerns including phobias and stress related to caregiving or illness. He begins by listening to each person's story and identifying strengths they already have.
Sessions focus on clear, practical steps rather than long lectures.
Background and approach
The aim is to build skills that fit into daily life and feel doable. Douglas uses straightforward tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice patterns and try new responses. He also draws on Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy to explore values and reshape unhelpful stories people tell about themselves.
Clients can expect a calm, respectful approach that emphasizes collaboration. He encourages small experiments between sessions so progress can be measured and adjusted. Work often centers on real situations like relationships, work stress, sleep, or managing anxiety and phobias.
Douglas practices in Maine and brings two decades of practical clinical experience to each case. He focuses on helping people find clearer direction, increase confidence, and handle life changes with more skill and self-compassion.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Douglas often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding to anxiety, phobias, or low mood. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts so clients can practice new skills in daily life.He also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions even when difficult feelings appear. ACT is helpful for coping with persistent worries, life changes, and distress that gets in the way of meaningful goals.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Douglas treats the first few sessions as a collaborative process to learn what matters most to the client and which methods feel like the best fit. He adjusts tools and pacing based on goals, preferences, and progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief, flexible check-ins and between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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