About Patricia
Patricia Montanari is a licensed mental health clinician with 16 years of experience who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and phobias. She practices in Florida and works in a straightforward, problem-focused way that aims to ease daily struggles. Patricia explains things plainly and helps people set clear, achievable steps forward.
She blends approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-informed work to address emotional patterns and relationship dynamics.
Background and approach
Patricia also draws on acceptance-oriented strategies to help people tolerate difficult feelings while moving toward valued goals. Sessions often include skill-building exercises, reflective conversation, and concrete plans to try between meetings. Her background includes work across community mental health settings, group programs, and home-based services.
That range has shaped her ability to tailor sessions to different life situations and cultural contexts. Patricia has experience supporting individuals dealing with trauma, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive concerns, and addictive behaviors. Patricia holds the credential LMHC and the credential LPCC and completed a Master of Arts in Counseling and Guidance.
She has worked with people facing parenting questions, relationship strain, and challenges tied to identity and self-worth. Her approach is warm and direct, aiming to make therapy useful in everyday life. Outside clinical work she values time with family, travel, swimming, music, and reading.
Patricia encourages clients to try small changes, notice what helps, and adjust plans as needed.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Patricia commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and act toward what matters to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy involves identifying thought and behavior patterns, practicing new skills, and testing small changes to reduce anxiety, panic, or compulsive urges. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and choose actions that reflect their values. Both approaches are useful for anxiety, phobias, mood concerns, and many forms of stress.She also draws on attachment-informed ideas to look at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current responses. This work helps people improve communication, set boundaries, and feel steadier in close relationships. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; the therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels most helpful to the client.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you practice skills and read nonverbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat works well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy days, unpredictable schedules, and different comfort levels while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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