Patricia Green-Metz, LCSW - Therapist in Louisiana

About Patricia

Patricia Green-Metz is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or family concerns. Her work also covers trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, addictions, ADHD, and issues related to identity and discrimination.

Patricia aims to offer a calm, respectful space where people can talk through painful feelings and practical problems. Patricia uses simple, evidence-based methods to help clients find steady footing.

Background and approach

She listens first, then helps set clear goals and small steps forward. Sessions often include practical skills for coping, tools to change unhelpful thoughts, and strategies for handling strong emotions. Her approach emphasizes cultural awareness and attention to how prejudice or identity stress can shape a person’s experience.

She pays attention to gender dysphoria, multicultural concerns, and the effects of discrimination when those issues are relevant. Patricia also supports people dealing with self-harm, sexual assault, and post-traumatic stress. In sessions she blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when useful.

Motivational Interviewing and Mindfulness techniques are added to help with change and emotional regulation. The goal is straightforward: practical help that fits each person’s life. Patricia works with individuals across a wide range of struggles, including intimacy issues, career stress, compassion fatigue, and bipolar disorder.

She offers services in English and accepts international clients for online formats such as video, phone, chat, and text messaging.

How therapy approaches work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting space. The therapist follows the person’s lead, offers empathy, and helps people clarify what they want to change; this is useful for relationship or family concerns and for people who need a steady, supportive presence.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and then replaces them with more helpful patterns. It is practical and goal-focused, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and parenting stress.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Patricia will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process may mix approaches over time to match what’s most helpful.

Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. They offer flexibility for scheduling, let people connect from different locations including international clients, and allow follow-up or brief check-ins between longer sessions when needed.

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.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Patricia address?

She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, family and relationship issues, parenting concerns, addictions, ADHD, grief, and related challenges.

How would you describe her therapy style?

The style is warm and practical. She listens closely, helps set clear goals, and teaches tools for coping and emotional regulation.

What experience does she bring to therapy?

She has 30 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of mental health and life issues, including multicultural and identity-related concerns.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

Patricia holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - with license LA LCSW 10737, and she practices in Louisiana.

Which languages are offered for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin therapy?

Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Also works with

Addictions
ADHD
Anger management
Bipolar disorder
Career difficulties
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Coping with life changes
Depression
Eating disorders
Gender dysphoria
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
LGBT
Multicultural concerns
Paranoia
Parenting issues
Post-traumatic stress
Prejudice and discrimination
Relationship issues
Self esteem
Self-harm
Sexual assault and abuse
Sleeping disorders

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 30 years
Licensed: Louisiana
Languages: English

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