Patricia Hawkins
Helping parents and adults navigate mental health challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patricia
Patricia Hawkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years in the mental health field. She began her career in Assertive Community Treatment, moved into case management, and has provided mental health therapy for the past ten years.
Patricia holds a master's degree in counseling and psychology from Michigan State University and has worked as both a supervisor and a direct service provider. She practices in Michigan and conducts sessions in English.
Background and approach
Her work focuses on people facing mental health and addiction challenges. She commonly helps with anxiety, depression, anger, stress, relationship and family concerns, and addictions. Parenting, sleep problems, coping with life changes, and career questions are also within her practice.
Patricia lists Family and parenting among her areas of focus. Patricia tailors her approach to each person. She prefers collaboration and builds treatment plans around what the client wants to learn and change.
Her style leans toward practical, goal-oriented work rather than long, open-ended exploration. She uses methods that match a client's learning style and daily life. She uses interventions from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
These approaches are applied in ways that target the specific problems a client brings to sessions. Patricia aims to help people develop skills they can use between appointments. Patricia values clear communication and steady progress.
She describes her work as solution-focused and guided by the client's priorities. Many people come for help with coping skills, managing strong emotions, and finding clearer paths forward in stressful times.
Approach-driven online care for practical change
Patricia uses cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing to support people making concrete changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps people try new habits to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns. Motivational interviewing is a conversational style that helps people clarify their own reasons for change and build motivation when facing addiction or difficult life shifts.Finding the right approach is something she works through with each client. She listens to goals and preferences, then suggests techniques that match the person's situation. That collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made or new needs arise.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, handle sudden life changes, and keep regular contact when in-person visits are not possible. Patricia aims to teach skills that clients can use between sessions, and the variety of formats supports continued practice and follow-up.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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