Patricia Manning

Patricia Manning is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eleven years of clinical experience. She offers steady, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, career concerns, parenting strains, or trauma. Her style is direct and compassionate, focused on helping people find clearer choices and better ways to cope.

Patricia draws on a blend of approaches to meet each person where they are. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters to the individual. She pairs that with evidence-informed tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches when clients need skills for managing thoughts, emotions, and reactions.

Her background includes long-term work with children and families in foster care, residential treatment, psychiatric settings, adoption and permanency planning, and shelters for people affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. That experience shapes how she sees trauma, attachment issues, and complex family dynamics.

Patricia describes an existential outlook in her work, helping people face life questions about loss, responsibility, and meaning rather than labeling those struggles as mere pathology. She also considers each person’s life context - including culture, gender, and biology - when planning care.

Sessions focus on building practical skills, improving relationships, and reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Patricia encourages steady progress, honest feedback, and active collaboration so people can move toward a more purposeful and manageable life.

How evidence-based approaches guide online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they relate to others and build more secure ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or depression. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used to process traumatic memories so they have less emotional charge and interrupt distressing reactions.

Figuring out the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort. That means trying different techniques, tracking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.

Confirm the current session options before booking because formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow steady contact while life feels chaotic. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight or audio-only meetings when video is not practical. Licensed professionals can adapt EMDR, CBT, and attachment-focused work to remote sessions in ways that focus on symptom relief, skill building, and processing difficult experiences.