About Patricia
Patricia Wornum helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and family or parenting strains. She makes the first steps easier by offering steady support and straightforward guidance. Patricia meets people where they are and focuses on practical ways to manage daily challenges.
Patricia is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, practicing in Massachusetts with ten years of experience. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood concerns, panic, and trauma reactions.
Background and approach
Her work also includes support for relationship and communication problems, grief around adoption or foster care, and issues tied to pregnancy and childbirth. In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can say what’s on their minds and try new ways of coping. She works with issues such as depression, low self-esteem, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue.
Patricia often focuses on skills that can be used between meetings to reduce symptoms and build resilience. People often come to her for help with life transitions, career stress, isolation, and finding a clearer sense of purpose. She also supports those dealing with substance use concerns and domestic violence effects by prioritizing safety and realistic steps forward.
Her approach is practical and collaborative, adapting to each person’s goals. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, allowing flexibility for different schedules and needs. Patricia works in English and serves clients located in Massachusetts.
How evidence-based methods meet online therapy
Patricia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and symptom relief. One common approach she relies on teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic attacks; sessions include short practice exercises and step-by-step plans to reduce intense symptoms. Another frequent focus is working through trauma-related reactions with gradual, paced strategies that help people feel safer and more in control of their day-to-day responses.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Patricia will listen to a person’s concerns, goals, and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. She adapts methods over time, checking in to see what helps and what needs to change so therapy stays relevant to real life.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, brief skill reviews, or support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare, or busy schedules and help people keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English