Patricia Wilkinson, LICSW

Patricia Wilkinson is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Massachusetts. She brings 40 years of experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at building practical skills people can use day to day.

Patricia draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change routines that keep problems going. She also uses client-centered methods to create a respectful, listening-based space where people set their own goals. When deeper patterns are affecting mood and relationships, she brings psychodynamic ideas into the conversation to help make sense of recurring feelings and behaviors.

Her background includes decades of work as a medical social worker with young adults and adults facing health and learning-related challenges. That experience informs how she helps with chronic illness, caregiving stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and related family issues. People also seek support for parenting strains, intimacy questions, career stress, and self-esteem struggles.

Sessions typically focus on usable strategies and steady skill building. Patricia helps people learn coping tools for sleep problems, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue, while also addressing relationship and communication problems. She frames therapy as a partnership where practical steps and personal insight go together.

Patricia works with a wide range of concerns, including adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric matters, autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic pain and illness, and bereavement. She aims to help clients leave sessions with clearer options and a plan they can try between meetings.

How therapy approaches translate online

CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. Online CBT sessions often include concrete exercises, thought records, and short between-session tasks to try new habits. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and pacing, with the therapist providing attentive listening and reflection to help people clarify what matters most.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Patricia will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as needs change, and sessions are shaped by ongoing conversation about what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging lets people send notes or get short support between visits. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats to see what works best.