Patricia Gillett
Compassionate practical support for life challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patricia
Patricia Gillett is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of hands-on experience in Arizona. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and motivation struggles. She also works with issues around self-esteem, intimacy, eating and sleeping, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Her manner at intake is calm and patient. She focuses on meeting people where they are so they can take the next step. Her sessions are tailored to each person's needs.
Background and approach
She blends acceptance and commitment strategies with cognitive behavioral tools and client-centered care. She brings practical skills, mindfulness practices, and emotion-regulation techniques into meetings. The goal is to build skills that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Patricia aims to create a respectful and nonjudgmental atmosphere. She encourages honest conversation about difficult topics like trauma, relationship challenges, and parenting stress. Her work includes coaching-oriented supports when clients want clearer goals and steps to change.
She has experience addressing a wide range of concerns including addiction, bipolar disorder, chronic illness, caregiving strain, blended family dynamics, and body image. Patricia adapts interventions so they fit each person’s life and goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Throughout the process she helps people identify values and practical next steps.
Sessions focus on small, achievable changes and building coping skills. Patricia aims to support progress at a pace that feels manageable.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to ground someone during stress and improve coping in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care when life gets busy or travel is necessary. They also allow for brief check-ins and flexible ways to practice skills between longer sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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