Patrick O'Leary
Calm, experienced guidance for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 41 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patrick
Patrick O'Leary is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 41 years of experience. He focuses on family and parenting issues along with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns. He explains things plainly and works to make therapy straightforward for busy parents.
His style is practical and calm. He listens first, then helps people figure out small changes that make daily life easier. Sessions often focus on improving communication, managing stress, and handling relationship or parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Patrick uses several familiar methods to guide work in therapy. He draws on client-centered listening to understand each person's values and priorities. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Mindfulness practices and narrative work help people notice patterns and rewrite the stories that keep them stuck. Over four decades he has supported people through addiction, grief, trauma, mood disorders, and major life transitions. He also assists with issues such as anger, self-esteem, career stress, ADHD, and family problems.
His goal is to help clients develop coping skills and clearer relationships. Sessions are offered in English and take place with a license as CA LMFT 27408. Patrick meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps parents and adults can take to feel more in control and more connected.
Approaches and online options for family and parenting support
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's point of view. It helps parents and adults feel heard and identify what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns and reduce stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. That process includes checking what helps and adjusting methods over time so the plan fits the family's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility for busy schedules. These options make it easier to attend from home, fit therapy around work and parenting, and keep momentum between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to practice the same methods as in person while focusing on clear steps, improved communication, and daily coping skills.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 41 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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