About Patricia
Patricia Owens is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and major life changes. Patricia aims to make the first step toward help feel doable and supportive.
She listens with respect and sensitivity, creating a space where people can talk through hard moments without judgment. Sessions are shaped to match each person's needs, so conversations and goals look different for everyone.
Background and approach
Patricia uses straightforward talk and practical steps rather than jargon. Her work often centers on coping skills for overwhelming feelings and stressful situations. She supports people dealing with abandonment, family of origin issues, loneliness, and life purpose questions.
She also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, cancer-related concerns, and aging issues. Patricia draws on several related approaches in session. She uses client-centered methods to follow a person’s lead, cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and trauma-focused practices when past events are causing current distress.
Mindfulness and existential ideas appear when clients want help with meaning, acceptance, or present-moment coping. Work with her typically aims to reduce immediate distress and build clearer ways to handle future challenges. Conversations include practical strategies, symptom-focused techniques, and exploration of values and goals.
Patricia believes progress grows from steady effort and mutual collaboration.
How Patricia’s approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s concerns. Online sessions using this approach let clients set the pace, share what matters most, and steer the goals for their work. It is useful for people who want a supportive, nonjudgmental space to talk.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions this often includes short exercises, tracking patterns between meetings, and trying new skills between calls to reduce anxiety or low mood.
Trauma-focused methods are used when past events continue to cause distress. Online work can include grounding, stabilization techniques, and careful pacing to handle difficult memories while building coping skills.
Finding the right method is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats offer practical benefits: video calls let therapists read nonverbal cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing prompts or short updates. These options make it easier to connect around work, caregiving, or mobility constraints and allow continuity of care when in-person meetings are not possible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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