Patricia Wolfenden
Supportive family-focused therapist
- Credentials
- LMHC, LMFT
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patricia
Patricia Wolfenden is a licensed clinician who combines practical talk therapy with compassion. She uses straightforward, collaborative methods to help people untangle stressful family and relationship situations. Patricia holds licenses as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Florida.
She brings 25 years of clinical experience to sessions and treats a wide range of concerns related to family and parenting. Patricia centers work on problems like addiction, relationship conflict, trauma and grief.
Background and approach
She also addresses stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, career pressures, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional areas she focuses on include blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, family of origin problems, domestic violence, and fertility concerns. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, codependency, and compassion fatigue.
Her approach draws on evidence-based tools such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Patricia mixes these with attachment-informed and client-centered work to fit each person’s needs. In sessions she listens first, helps identify values and goals, and offers clear strategies to try between meetings.
Practical steps are emphasized over jargon. Sessions explore what’s happening now in relationships and what small changes might help. Patricia respects each person’s knowledge of their own life while offering structure and feedback from her years of practice.
She provides services in Florida and conducts sessions in English. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. The process to begin involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy flow.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online family work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; this can help when relationships feel strained or when someone is coping with loss or addiction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful reactions, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that affect family life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on emotions within close relationships and helps partners or family members understand and change interaction patterns that create distance or conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, test what helps, and adjust methods as needed. That process makes the plan feel practical and tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for busy family schedules and for those who prefer remote options. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care while balancing daily responsibilities, and they allow the therapist to bring structured exercises, emotion-focused conversations, and skill practice into times that fit a family’s routine.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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