Patricia Manning, LPC

Patricia Manning is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon who uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a core tool in her work. She offers straightforward, practical help for people feeling anxious, overwhelmed, depressed, or burned out. Patricia writes and talks plainly in sessions to make coping skills easy to use in daily life.

She combines CBT with attachment-based and client-centered approaches to address stress, trauma, parenting concerns, relationship strain, and issues around self-esteem. Patricia also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and EMDR when they fit a person's challenges. Her style emphasizes clear skills, reflection, and steady progress rather than labels or jargon.

Patricia brings 11 years of clinical experience to her practice. Her background includes long-term work with children, adolescents, and parents in child protection, foster care, residential treatment, psychiatric settings, and shelters for those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. She completed a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling in 2008.

In sessions she focuses on practical steps people can take to manage anxiety, grief, anger, ADHD-related struggles, and life changes. She also helps with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family questions, caregiver stress, codependency, and meaning or life purpose challenges.

Patricia emphasizes collaboration and honest feedback. She supports people to learn new coping tools, address traumatic memories when appropriate, and build routines that support lasting change.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Patricia commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors. CBT sessions often involve short exercises, homework, and step-by-step strategies for anxiety, depression, anger, and everyday stress.

She also incorporates Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That work helps people understand feeling and trust patterns in relationships and build healthier connections. Client-Centered Therapy is part of her way of working too, which means sessions are guided by the person's goals and experience and focus on listening and clear feedback.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Patricia works collaboratively to choose which methods fit a person's needs and goals. She will discuss options, explain how a technique might help, and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and do traditional session work. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it simple to check in between meetings, do brief coaching, or share updates quickly. These formats help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other routines.