Patricia Carrington
Calm, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LPC, CSW
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patricia
Patricia Carrington is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Certified Social Worker (CSW) based in Wisconsin. She brings seven years of licensed counseling experience and a long background in social services and trauma work. Patricia has a calm, nonjudgmental manner and focuses on practical steps that fit into everyday life.
Parents and caregivers often find her approach easy to follow and down-to-earth. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, relationship struggles, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
She also addresses trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, ADHD, and issues that come with life transitions. Patricia uses clear, goal-oriented methods so clients leave with tools to try between sessions. Patricia’s earlier work was in social services and case management, including work with women and children impacted by abuse.
That background informs how she supports families and individuals through difficult moments. She values collaboration and respects each person’s own knowledge about what will work in their life. In sessions she combines client-focused listening with practical strategies from cognitive behavioral approaches, emotion-focused work, and mindfulness.
She helps clients set small, manageable goals and practices to reduce overwhelm. Communication skills and problem-solving for family life are common parts of the work. Practical considerations are part of her practice.
Sessions can be scheduled evenings and weekends to fit family routines. Patricia offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
Approaches that translate to online family work
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding the person in front of the therapist. It focuses on empathy and working at the client’s pace, which helps parents and caregivers feel heard and respected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, addresses relationship patterns and helps couples or family members notice and shift how they respond to each other.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that match those goals and adjust the plan as needed, so clients are part of deciding what feels most useful.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules. Patricia offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible options. These formats let parents connect from home, arrange appointments outside typical work hours, and use short check-ins between full sessions to stay on track.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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