Patricia Williams
Compassionate counseling for families and parents
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patricia
Patricia Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. Patricia aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so parents can find helpful steps fast.
She keeps sessions collaborative and respectful. Patricia listens first, then helps set clear goals. Sessions often begin with what is working now and small changes that can reduce daily stress at home.
Background and approach
Her approach blends practical thinking and reflective work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathy and supporting a person’s own strengths.
Patricia also draws on mindfulness to help clients notice emotions without reacting immediately. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone feels stuck and needs help finding motivation for change. She may use Jungian ideas to look at meaning and patterns that repeat in family life.
She has experience in schools and both rural and urban settings in Georgia. Patricia works with families navigating adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and problems tied to family of origin. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar issues, anger, and the fallout from separation or divorce.
Sessions are offered in English. Patricia emphasizes practical tools, steady support, and building on a family’s strengths to manage changes and restore balance.
Approaches that guide online family and parenting work
Patricia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that cause stress and to test small behavior changes that often reduce anxiety and improve parent-child interactions. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on empathy and respect so parents and caregivers can explore concerns without judgment. These approaches are practical and aimed at resolving everyday family problems.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Patricia will talk with the client about their goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan based on how things are going. The emphasis is on working together to pick methods that match a family's needs and values rather than following a fixed protocol.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. This variety lets parents fit therapy into busy schedules, check in between sessions, or choose the communication style that feels most comfortable. Licensed professionals can use these formats to support progress over time while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady, compassionate guidance.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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