About Patricia
Patricia Spataro helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, substance use concerns, grief, and relationship or work strain. She also supports clients dealing with trauma, parenting challenges, sleep and eating concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, and bipolar-related issues. Patricia is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she brings twenty years of experience to sessions.
Her approach is collaborative and direct. She joins with each person to set clear goals and to plan steps toward them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills, honest conversation, and steady progress rather than jargon or vague promises. Patricia has led workplace and professional support programs, including an employee assistance program and a lawyer assistance program in New York. That background shaped her interest in workplace stress, career strains, and adults facing high-pressure environments.
Her clinical work has included assessment and treatment for substance use, mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, and grief. In sessions she uses evidence-based tools such as motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness-based stress reduction. She explains strategies in plain language and helps people practice new ways of coping between meetings.
Patricia adapts those tools to each person’s situation rather than following one fixed method. People can expect a steady, goal-focused style. Conversations are meant to be practical and usable in daily life.
Patricia works from New York and conducts sessions in English.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Patricia uses practical, evidence-based techniques that translate well to online work. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors; they help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and mood swings. Motivational interviewing helps people clarify their reasons for change and build motivation for steps like reducing substance use or changing health habits. Mindfulness-based stress reduction teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage ongoing stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. Patricia will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust plans as needed. This collaborative decision-making helps match methods to real-life needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders or brief reflections between sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping therapy practical and focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English