Patricia (Pat) La Plante
Guide for grief, trauma, and life transitions
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patricia
Patricia (Pat) La Plante is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado. She has worked as a counselor since 1992 and brings three decades of experience to each session. Pat focuses on practical support for people dealing with grief, trauma, stress, anxiety, and life transitions.
She has worked in hospitals, independent practice, and agencies such as Community Reach Center Mobile Crisis Unit, Denver Rescue Mission, and All-Health Network. That background includes crisis response after hurricanes, mass shootings, natural disasters, and other traumatic events.
Background and approach
She also has experience supporting people facing end-of-life care and the grieving that follows loss. Pat holds a BA in Communications from Virginia Tech, an MA in counseling, and an MA in spiritual formation. She also completed a minor in nutrition, which informed her early work with eating disorders.
Those varied studies shape how she understands both body and mind concerns. In sessions she positions herself as a guide and supporter rather than someone who fixes problems for clients. Conversations often look at how a situation developed and what patterns might be holding someone back.
She aims to help people clarify purpose, rebuild routine, and regain forward momentum in daily life. Her style is straightforward and companionable. Parents worried about family or parenting stress will find clear language and steady presence.
Pat works with common issues like relationships, anger, self-esteem, career struggles, and compassion fatigue, helping people take practical steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Pat often blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to meet each person's needs. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and creating space for people to find their own answers while the therapist offers empathy and support. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and helps people try small, practical changes to reduce anxiety, manage stress, or shift mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then recommend techniques or a blend of methods that fit. That collaborative planning helps make sessions feel relevant and useful from the start.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule. Those options allow people in Colorado or other locations to meet without traveling, and they support follow-up and check-ins between longer sessions. The format can be adapted over time as needs and circumstances change.
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
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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