About Patricia
Patricia Gonzales is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and phobias. She speaks English and Spanish and practices from New Mexico. Patricia focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier day to day.
She uses a client-centered approach that starts by listening to each person’s story. That means the conversation begins where the client is and follows their goals.
Background and approach
Patricia builds on strengths people already have and helps them notice what is working. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a common tool in her sessions. She helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce worry, panic, and sleep problems.
Solution-focused techniques help clients set short-term goals and track progress between meetings. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about change. Patricia talks through readiness and gently helps people find their own reasons to move forward.
Narrative Therapy can be useful for reshaping painful stories and restoring a sense of self beyond labels. Sessions can address everyday stress, parenting strain, intimacy-related concerns, anger, self-esteem issues, and life transitions. Patricia also has experience with hospice and end-of-life counseling, veteran and armed forces issues, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, postpartum depression, and seasonal mood shifts.
Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping clients make clear, manageable changes.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Patricia often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior experiments. That approach can reduce anxiety, panic symptoms, sleep problems, and phobic reactions by breaking problems into concrete steps. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, reflecting, and honoring each person's perspective to guide the work.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Patricia works collaboratively with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and adapts the plan over time so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits in her practice. Video calls let you use visual cues for skills practice and deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging allows for quick updates, coping reminders, and flexible communication between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping focus on real, manageable change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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