About Patricia
Patricia Pardy is a licensed mental health counselor who uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She brings two decades of experience and focuses on practical support for relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, grief, trauma, and problems with self-esteem and purpose.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered when stronger emotion regulation and distress tolerance tools are needed.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are used to build awareness and momentum toward goals. Patricia works with people dealing with a broad range of issues, including ADHD, career uncertainty, anger, and coping after loss. She is also experienced addressing sensitive topics such as domestic violence, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and alternative sex cultures like BDSM and kink.
Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people make small, sustainable changes. In sessions she focuses on building a trusting relationship and on clear steps clients can take between meetings. Patricia tailors her methods to each person’s situation and priorities rather than using one set approach for everyone.
Her training includes a Master of Arts and licensure as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). Patricia practices from New York and conducts sessions in English. She integrates evidence-informed techniques with a calm, direct style so clients can work toward clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and more effective communication.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person as an individual and meeting them where they are. In practice this means the therapist listens closely and adapts sessions to a person’s needs, helping them set goals and decide what to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and then practice alternative ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is often part of the work together. Patricia will discuss goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities and then suggest methods that fit. That collaborative planning can include trying a technique for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online formats here include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow quick, in-the-moment support and flexible check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, Massachusetts, Utah, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Kansas, Rhode Island, Indiana, Arkansas, Oregon
- Languages
- English