Patty Seahlaigh
Calm guidance for parents navigating hard changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patty
Patty Seahlaigh is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) based in Missouri with 26 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, relationship struggles, addictions, and major life changes. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable and practical for worried parents reading on a phone.
Patty uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods to address everyday problems. Sessions emphasize clear goals, coping skills, and small steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most to each person and builds from there. Her background includes long-term work with trauma and abuse, mood disorders such as bipolar, and issues tied to attachment and adoption or foster care. She also addresses anger, self-esteem, career stress, and eating or substance-related concerns.
Patty draws on therapies like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide practical change. She blends these approaches to suit the client’s needs rather than using one fixed method. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online in various formats.
Patty frames therapy as a collaborative process that focuses on realistic strategies, better communication, and steady progress over time.
How Patty's approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or ACT helps people clarify what matters most and take small, values-based steps despite painful thoughts or feelings. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical exercises to stay present and act on priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying concrete alternatives. It provides clear tools for managing anxiety, mood shifts, and coping with life changes through skill-building and homework between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and early bonds to understand how they shape current connections. It can be useful when difficulties with trust, closeness, or parenting expectations are part of the problem.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Patty will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and everyday life. The plan can change as progress is made so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. These options let people access regular support from home, stay consistent after a setback, and use shorter check-ins when needed.
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
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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