Patricia Searels, LPC, LCMHC

Patricia Searels is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, based in Florida. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. Patricia aims to build a straightforward, caring rapport so people feel heard and able to take steps forward.

She brings 28 years of clinical experience across universities, private practice, and non-profit centers. That background includes work with college students, athletes, young professionals, and adults facing adjustment challenges such as moving, becoming new parents, job changes, or divorce.

Patricia’s style is direct and cooperative. Sessions often combine cognitive-behavioral tools, solution-focused techniques, and motivational interviewing to match each person’s needs. She works with clients to set clear goals and use practical strategies that can be practiced between meetings.

Therapy can address a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, addiction-related issues, intimacy challenges, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, and career-related strain. She also supports people navigating identity and LGBT-related concerns and mood conditions like bipolar disorder.

Patricia prefers some voice or face-to-face time alongside messaging. Her approach emphasizes giving people specific skills and steps to improve everyday functioning and emotional balance. She encourages a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide the work.

How Patricia’s Approaches Work Online

Patricia commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR to address symptoms and past distress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. EMDR helps process traumatic memories by combining focused recall with bilateral stimulation to reduce the memory’s emotional intensity.

She aims to find the best approach together. Early sessions are collaborative and focus on goals, history, and what methods feel right. The plan can be adjusted over time so techniques match the client’s needs and comfort level.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills work and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support short check-ins, homework review, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.