Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
How Patricia works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- South Carolina, Oregon
- Years in practice
- 11
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Patricia
Patricia Manning is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on practical, person-centered support. She uses straightforward talk and hands-on tools to help people manage anger, anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles.
Patricia built a long career working with children, adolescents, and parents in settings like foster care, residential treatment, psychiatric hospitals, alternative schools, and a shelter for people impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault.
She earned a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling in 2008 from Webster University and has 11 years of counseling experience in addition to many earlier years in child welfare roles.
Background and approach
Her counseling style centers on a client-centered approach that respects each person's story. She draws from Attachment-Based Therapy, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior techniques, and EMDR when trauma is present. Sessions are conversational and focused on practical skills clients can use between meetings.
Patricia also uses ideas from existential thought to help people find meaning around loss, responsibility, and life transitions. She pays attention to the whole person and the life context that shapes stress and coping. This includes concerns such as adoption and foster care history, attachment difficulties, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.
People meet her when they need help with parenting strain, grief, career changes, intimacy issues, or coping after trauma. She explains steps clearly, challenges self-defeating patterns when needed, and supports clients as they practice new ways of living.
What Patricia works with
Everything Patricia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Patricia's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Patricia lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-driven online care for trauma and everyday stress
Patricia commonly blends Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address relationship wounds and day-to-day patterns. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current reactions and helps people build safer ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete coping skills for anger, anxiety, and depression.She views finding the right approach as a team effort. During early sessions she will listen to your goals and suggest approaches that match your needs. Together you decide whether to focus on emotion regulation skills, trauma processing, or exploring life meaning and relationship patterns.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper, face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, skills practice, and brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family life while still working on anger, trauma, grief, and everyday stressors.
Questions people ask about Patricia
What concerns does she commonly address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship problems, parenting strain, grief, trauma and related issues like codependency and attachment difficulties.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is client-centered and practical, mixing talk with skill building from approaches such as CBT and DBT and using EMDR when trauma work is appropriate.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 11 years of counseling experience plus many earlier years working in child welfare, adoption, and foster care settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and practices from Oregon with licensure noted as SC LPC and OR LPC in her background.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She works with clients through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.