Works with
How Patricia works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Years in practice
- 31
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Patricia
Patricia (Pat) La Plante is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 31 years of practice. She draws on long experience in hospitals, crisis teams, agencies, and independent practice to support people facing grief, trauma, and major life stressors. Pat aims to be a steady presence while clients sort through painful events and make changes that matter to them.
Her background includes work on mobile crisis units and in settings such as community mental health centers and rescue missions.
Background and approach
That experience shaped how she responds to urgent situations like disasters, mass-trauma events, and sudden loss. She has also worked closely with people at the end of life and those caring for someone who is dying. Pat uses straightforward conversation and collaborative planning in sessions.
She pays attention to how thoughts, feelings, and relationships interact, and helps people build practical skills to cope. Sessions often include chances to name what matters most and practice small steps toward better functioning. Her work is influenced by Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Jungian ideas about meaning and inner life.
Those approaches show up as listening, gentle challenge, and exploring emotions and patterns that repeat over time. People typically come to Pat for help with grief, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, anger, parenting stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and life transitions. She also supports concerns like guilt, shame, forgiveness, and finding purpose when life feels empty.
Pat offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She combines practical tools with thoughtful reflection to help people move forward at their own pace.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
Approaches Patricia lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. In practice that means the therapist follows the person's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people name their goals and strengths. It is helpful for grief, life transitions, and feeling stuck.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. Clients learn practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, anger, and coping after trauma.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods, then choose or blend approaches collaboratively. That way the plan matches the problem and the person’s style.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief ongoing contact. These options help fit therapy into work, travel, caregiving, and other life demands while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
Questions people ask about Patricia
What kinds of concerns does Pat help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, relationship and family issues, parenting strain, and career or life-change worries.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a calm, listening approach that combines practical skill-building with emotional exploration. Sessions focus on understanding patterns and testing small changes.
What is her professional background?
Pat has 31 years of clinical experience and has worked in hospitals, mobile crisis teams, community agencies, rescue mission settings, and independent practice.
What credentials and region are associated with this therapist?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - licensed in Colorado.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or across borders?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She sees people via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are billed through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.