Patricia Breshears
Calm guidance for real family life
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patricia
Patricia Breshears is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with a long history helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship concerns. She listens with patience and aims to make clients feel heard. Patricia focuses on practical steps and clear goals so parents and individuals can see progress between sessions.
Her style centers on building trust first. Patricia draws from several therapeutic methods rather than following one strict model.
Background and approach
She pays attention to each person’s strengths and life experience when suggesting tools and strategies. In sessions she mixes problem-solving with reflective work. That can mean setting concrete tasks one week and talking through difficult feelings the next.
She uses short-term techniques alongside deeper conversations to meet immediate needs and long-term change. Patricia brings 32 years of experience to her practice in Illinois as an LCPC. She adapts what she offers to fit each client’s situation and priorities.
Many clients find the blend of practical steps and empathic listening helpful when they’re juggling household demands, caregiving, or life transitions. Her approach includes cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness practices to manage stress, motivational interviewing to support change, and narrative and solution-focused ideas to reframe problems and set goals.
Patricia emphasizes collaboration so people leave sessions with useful next steps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral changes. It helps people reduce anxiety, manage mood problems, and tackle addictive behaviors with practical steps.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention exercises and grounding practices to reduce stress and improve emotional regulation. It can be useful when feelings become overwhelming or when someone needs tools to calm down in the moment.
Motivational interviewing supports change by helping a person clarify their own reasons for moving forward. It is often used when someone is unsure about altering a habit or dealing with addiction and wants guided, nonjudgmental support.
Patricia approaches care collaboratively. She will listen to a person’s goals and try different methods to see what fits best. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to use and when to adjust the plan.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to check in between visits. The variety of formats also lets people choose the way they communicate that feels most comfortable for them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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