Patricia Brickman , LMHC

Patricia Brickman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings three years of hands-on therapy work to her practice. She trained at Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington, earning a Master’s in Counseling Psychology. Patricia’s background includes time in inpatient psychiatric settings, residential eating-disorder programs, and community outpatient clinics.

She focuses on adults, especially people in the 18–35 age range. She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, self-esteem and body image concerns, and addiction-related issues. Patricia also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, intimacy questions, and career or life changes. The profile notes a focus on women’s issues and parenting stressors such as postpartum concerns.

Patricia uses several therapy styles depending on a person’s needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and emotion-focused therapy to process strong feelings. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior tools for emotional regulation.

Her sessions are described as client-centered and trauma-informed, which means she aims to follow each person’s pace and priorities while keeping attention on past wounds that affect current life. Patricia combines talk work with practical skills and coping strategies.

People who prefer working online can connect in multiple ways. Patricia sees clients from Washington and accepts international clients who use the offered session formats. Her approach aims to be straightforward and collaborative, helping people make concrete changes they can notice in daily life.

Approaches That Guide Online Work

Attachment-based work looks at how earlier bonds shape current relationships and patterns. It helps people who notice repeating relationship problems or who want to understand why they react strongly in close connections. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s goals and pace; the therapist follows what matters most to the client and helps them name and work toward personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavior change and practical exercises to reduce anxiety or depressive thinking.

Finding the right approach is part of the online process. Patricia will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their situation, goals, and comfort level. That may mean blending attachment ideas, client-centered listening, and CBT tools over several sessions to see what helps most.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions that include face-to-face conversation, while phone can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and let people try different formats to find what works best.