About Patricia
Patricia Curran offers calm, experienced support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. She writes simply and listens closely to understand what feels most urgent. Patricia aims to help clients find practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
Patricia is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, with 36 years of clinical experience. She has worked in outpatient, inpatient, and confinement settings, which exposed her to many different challenges and coping styles.
Background and approach
That background shapes a steady, adaptable approach to care. She mixes a few therapy styles to fit each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method. Sessions focus on clear goals, problem-solving, and learning concrete skills.
Patricia helps people notice patterns of thought and behavior and practice alternatives that actually work in daily life. Areas she commonly addresses include relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, career pressures, and compassion fatigue.
She also pays attention to aging and geriatric issues, cancer-related concerns, caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and challenges around divorce, emptiness, and midlife changes. Patricia aims to make therapy an active collaboration. She listens for what matters to each person, then offers tools and steps to try between sessions.
The focus is on helping clients move toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
How Patricia’s Approaches Work Online
Patricia draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to guide online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities and strengths so goals come from the client. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and depression. DBT adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication when feelings run high.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Patricia will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match current needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques as progress is made and checks in regularly to make sure the plan still feels helpful.
Online therapy formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief updates, real-time support during stressful moments, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Arizona
- Languages
- English