About Patricia
Patricia Foyder-DeVoe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. She combines practical tools with a caring, direct approach so clients can make steady progress. Patricia works in English and Spanish and is based in New York.
Her practice centers on building a trusting connection. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what a person wants to change.
Background and approach
That means clear goals, skills to use between sessions, and regular check-ins on progress. Patricia draws on psychodynamic ideas to help people understand patterns that repeat across relationships and life choices. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and DBT strategies for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
These methods are chosen to match each person's needs rather than applied the same way to everyone. She has long experience with concerns like grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, body image and eating issues, parenting stress, caregiver strain, and work or career transitions. She also helps people facing attachment wounds, abandonment fears, chronic illness, and communication problems.
Sessions may include problem-focused work such as coping strategies and communication practice, alongside exploration of past experiences that shape current reactions. Patricia aims to help people gain clearer choices and feel more able to handle the challenges they face.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping a person find their own answers; it is useful for people who want a supportive space to sort through feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships, which can help with emotion regulation and recurring conflicts.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Patricia will discuss options and help decide which methods match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. The choice can change over time as different issues come up, and the therapist and client make that decision collaboratively.
Online therapy makes these approaches more accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for more interactive skill practice and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick coping reminders, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family life, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- 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
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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