Patricia Godwin , LCSW

Patricia Godwin is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She also supports clients facing career crossroads, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and issues with addictions and ADHD. Patricia focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.

Her style is warm and interactive. Conversations are respectful and grounded in what the person needs that day. She avoids labels and listens first, then works with each person to build a plan that fits their life.

Patricia draws from approaches that focus on the person and on concrete change. She uses client-centered techniques to make space for each person’s story, and cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work help people find their own next steps when motivation or change feels stalled.

Clients can expect short-term strategies alongside longer work on patterns that keep causing pain. Sessions often include clear goals, simple experiments to try between meetings, and focused conversation about what helped or did not. Patricia also applies relationship-focused tools when communication or trust issues are part of the problem.

Based in Utah, Patricia offers therapy in English. She brings steady experience and a practical approach to help people move forward through life transitions, caregiving stress, midlife shifts, postpartum struggles, and end-of-life concerns.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Patricia commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to guide online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, reflecting, and validating each person’s experience so they can feel understood and decide what change looks like. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors, teaches simple skills to test unhelpful beliefs, and uses short experiments to try new ways of responding to stress.

She also draws on solution-focused methods when people want quicker, goal-directed work. That approach narrows the conversation to small, achievable steps and builds on what already works in someone’s life. Choosing the right mix of methods is collaborative; the therapist and client review goals, try approaches, and adjust based on what helps most.

Online therapy offers several practical benefits for these approaches. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion and relationship-focused work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, handle brief coaching moments, or keep momentum with shorter exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while still using client-centered, CBT, and solution-focused tools to make progress.