About Patricia
Patricia (Trish) Pennix offers straightforward help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, or major life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on what someone needs now. Trish helps clients build self-worth and use their thoughts to shift how they feel.
She works collaboratively to set clear goals and practical steps forward. Trish uses a mix of common therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered methods to listen closely and shape sessions around what matters most to the individual.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and replace it with more useful habits. Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies help people manage strong feelings and find small changes that make life easier. With eight years of experience as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York, Trish combines practical tools with steady support.
Sessions can cover a wide range of concerns including relationships, parenting strain, career stress, mood disorders, and trauma-related difficulties. She pays attention to family of origin issues, codependency, caregiving stress, and multicultural concerns when they shape a person’s struggles. Sessions are offered in English and are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
How Trish Uses Practical Therapies Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. The therapist follows a person’s lead, reflecting concerns and helping clarify goals so sessions feel relevant and manageable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior. It helps people replace unhelpful thoughts with more realistic ones and practice new habits for mood and anxiety concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Trish will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they’ll try methods that fit the individual and adjust the plan over time based on what works in real life.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter updates, coaching-style exchanges, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English