About Patricia
Patricia Montanari uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and addiction. She is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - who draws on 16 years of experience to guide clients through life changes and tough moments. She blends straightforward skills training with deeper work on relationships and attachment.
Sessions may include tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts, and techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to stabilize intense emotions.
Background and approach
Patricia also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help people clarify values and take manageable action. Her background includes work across community mental health, group settings, and home-based services. That variety shaped a flexible style that fits different situations - short-term problem solving or longer work on recurring patterns.
She has experience addressing mood disorders, trauma, personality concerns, and co-occurring substance issues. Patricia has practiced with diverse populations and brings attention to cultural differences in relationships and family life. She helps parents navigate parenting strain and supports people coping with grief, isolation, shame, or relationship conflict.
Practical communication skills and pacing change into daily life are common goals. Outside of practice she values time with family and dogs, swimming, travel, and reading. Patricia aims to offer a calm, relaxed space where clients can talk through immediate problems and build skills to handle future challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which often reduces worry, panic, and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people shift how they relate to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patricia will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She combines approaches when helpful and adjusts pace to what feels manageable for the client.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and nonverbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat allow brief check-ins or support between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and let people choose how they want to connect with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Mexico
- Languages
- English