About Patricia
Patricia Nelson is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, stress, addiction, depression, and relationship strain. She practices in New York and brings a compassionate, down-to-earth approach to conversations about life changes and emotional pain. In sessions she focuses on practical skills and straightforward talk.
She listens first, then helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck. She uses therapy to teach coping tools for sleep, eating, anger, and focus problems like ADHD.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience with trauma, emotional abuse, and grief. Patricia also supports people facing career shifts, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and concerns around intimacy and self-esteem. She adapts her work for issues tied to adoption, attachment, and body image when those come up.
Patricia combines client-centered principles with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas and motivational interviewing to help people make changes they want. The plan is tailored to each person’s goals and pace.
Sessions are offered in English and available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Fees vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, visitors complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship, then shaping sessions around what the person says matters most. This approach helps people feel heard while they sort out goals and next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches specific skills for managing anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and addictive behaviors through practical exercises and homework.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas bring skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those techniques are useful for managing anger, intense emotions, and relationship conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Patricia will help a client decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging make quick check-ins and brief coaching possible between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work days, caregiving schedules, or times when leaving home is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York, California
- Languages
- English
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