Patricia Manning, LPC

Patricia Manning is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people recover from trauma and navigate stressful life changes. She speaks plainly and works to create a steady, thoughtful space where clients can talk through anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, relationship struggles, and questions about purpose.

Patricia began working with children and families more than four decades ago while studying psychology at Wofford College. Early roles included child protection work, permanency planning, and adoption services. Over the years she has worked in foster care, residential treatment, psychiatric hospitals, alternative schools, and shelters serving people impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault.

She completed a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling in 2008 from Webster University and has eleven years of experience as a licensed clinician. Her background gives her practical experience with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, dissociation, and other trauma-related problems.

Her approach centers on client-centered and attachment-based work, combined with evidence-informed tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, and EMDR methods when appropriate. Patricia describes human struggles like loss and meaning as part of life, and she helps people learn skills to manage emotions and rebuild stability.

In sessions she aims to be both supportive and direct. She balances encouragement with clear feedback when patterns are harmful or unhelpful. Clients who want practical coping strategies and thoughtful exploration of life purpose may find this approach fits their goals.

How key approaches guide online healing

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. Online work using attachment ideas helps people notice connection patterns, practice new ways of relating, and repair trust when relationships have been strained.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into small steps that can be changed. In remote sessions CBT tools include setting manageable goals, practicing new skills between meetings, and tracking progress to reduce anxiety and depression.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice happens together over the first few sessions and can be adjusted as progress unfolds.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when full appointments are hard to arrange. It also makes it simpler to keep continuity during life transitions while you practice new coping strategies in everyday settings.