Patricia Childress , LCSW

Patricia Childress is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 26 years of experience. She offers a down-to-earth, interactive approach that helps people talk through hard moments. Patricia aims to create a practical plan so clients can move forward from loss, stress, or big life changes.

She focuses on relationship issues, grief and bereavement, self-esteem, and coping with life transitions. Patricia also helps with anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, sleep problems, and issues related to intimacy. Her practice includes attention to ADHD, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue.

Patricia uses approaches that center on the person in front of her. Sessions often include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness exercises. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills and motivational interviewing to support change and build coping skills.

With a long career across age groups, she brings experience working in many settings and with many different concerns. Patricia describes grief broadly to include losses beyond death, such as divorce, job changes, or other unexpected events. She aims to help clients identify lingering feelings tied to those losses and develop tools for resilience.

Her style is practical and supportive. Patricia works with clients to set short-term, solution-oriented goals and to assemble a toolbox of strategies for future challenges. The result is straightforward work toward clearer thinking and steadier emotional footing.

Therapeutic approaches for online emotional work

Patricia uses client-centered work to keep the focus on each person's priorities and pace. This approach means the conversation follows what matters most to the client and builds on their strengths to find solutions.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. CBT helps people test unhelpful thinking, try different actions, and reduce anxiety or depressive patterns.

Dialectical behavior therapy skills are part of her toolkit too, offering concrete practices for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. These skills are useful for managing intense emotions and improving relationships.

Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past efforts, and preferences, then try methods that fit those aims. Adjustments are made over time so therapy stays relevant and useful.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and real-time exercises, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, brief reflections, or ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.