Patrick Scally
Calm, experienced clinician focused on practical change
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 50 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patrick
Patrick Scally is a licensed clinician in Maryland who uses a warm, practical style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. He draws on five decades of professional experience and combines talk-based care with goal-focused techniques. He treats problems with motivation, self-esteem, sleep, addiction-related concerns, and intimacy issues in straightforward terms.
Patrick holds an MD and is licensed as an LCSW-C. Background and approach: He centers sessions on respectful, sensitive conversation that fits each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Patrick adapts his approach based on what someone brings to the session and invites their input when planning the work. He uses client-centered methods to listen and build trust, and cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thoughts and habits. Patrick also brings mindfulness tools to manage distress in the moment and motivational interviewing to support change when someone feels stuck.
His long practice includes helping people cope with life changes, career stresses, compassion fatigue, and relationship or family problems. He has worked with issues related to trauma, abuse, and addiction over many years. Sessions are practical and focused on small, doable steps.
Patrick aims to empower people to try new strategies, notice what works, and adjust as needed. He encourages open conversation about goals, progress, and setbacks along the way.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. In practice this means sessions start with the person's concerns, and the therapist shapes conversation and goals around what matters most to them. This approach helps with issues like motivation, low self-esteem, and adjusting to life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many stress-related issues because it breaks problems into specific steps to practice between sessions.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will help decide which approaches fit the client's goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can change over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life. Video calls replicate face-to-face conversations, phone sessions provide a simpler option, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins and exercises between meetings. Those flexible formats let licensed professionals maintain continuity of care and adapt methods like CBT or mindfulness to the way a person prefers to engage.
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
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 50 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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