About Patricia
Patricia Uhan is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, and self-esteem struggles. She writes plainly and listens with warmth to understand what brought each person to therapy. Her style is empathetic and focused on practical steps that can make daily life feel more manageable.
She has four years of clinical experience and has worked in community mental health settings. That work included supporting survivors of sexual abuse or assault and caring for people with co-occurring substance use and mental health challenges.
Background and approach
She has also worked with individuals living with severe and persistent mental illness and dual diagnosis. Patricia draws on several approaches to match a person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping skills.
She also applies attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns that influence current struggles. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior techniques are part of her toolbox when emotion regulation or values-based change are needed. Her practice pays attention to cultural identity and personal history when planning care.
Sessions are meant to be collaborative - the person and Patricia set goals together and track progress. She aims to teach practical skills that people can use between sessions. Patricia is licensed as an LPC and as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC.
She practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English.
Practical approaches for online therapy and skill building
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when anxiety, depression, or a sense of emptiness makes it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship experiences shape current ways of relating and can help people notice and change unhelpful patterns in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean starting with a skills-focused CBT plan, adding acceptance and values work, or using attachment ideas to understand relationship triggers. The plan can change as progress is tracked together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are helpful for face-to-face conversation and demonstrating skills. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work schedules, caregiving demands, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Florida
- Languages
- English