About Patrick
Dr. Patrick McCain is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 18 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, substance use, mood disorders, and trauma-related concerns.
He aims to meet clients where they are and help them build practical skills for everyday life. He uses clear, person-centered care and works alongside clients to identify goals and solutions. Sessions emphasize understanding what triggers distress and finding ways to reduce its impact.
Background and approach
He also supports people coping with grief, relationship problems, work stress, and life transitions. His background includes long-term clinical work and a trauma-informed perspective that helps when past events continue to cause reactions in daily life. That experience is applied to concerns such as PTSD, bipolar mood patterns, and complex emotional responses.
He also works with substance-related problems without assuming a single path to recovery. In session he combines evidence-informed methods to match a person's needs. That can mean practical behavior strategies, exploring personal values, or focusing on attachment and connection.
The work tends to be collaborative, with the client guiding priorities and Dr. McCain offering tools and options. People who reach out can expect direct conversation about symptoms and clear steps to practice between sessions.
He emphasizes respect, nonjudgmental listening, and helping people strengthen coping skills and self-understanding. He invites those ready to try change to take the first step toward better daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help people who feel stuck by connecting everyday choices to what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current connections and coping styles, which can be useful when intimacy, abandonment, or relationship trust are central issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest methods that fit. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively which techniques to try and adjust them over time based on what helps.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to meet: video calls for fuller interaction, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is an issue, and live chat or text-based messaging for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, manage follow-up tasks, and maintain continuity when travel or location are factors.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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 disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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