Patricia Green-Metz

Patricia Green-Metz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, and challenges tied to relationships and family life. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping clients get clearer about what they want and how to move forward.

She creates an affirming space that pays attention to how culture, identity, and prejudice shape experience. Patricia focuses on trauma and recovery, and she also supports people dealing with addiction, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, and questions around gender and sexual identity. She aims to listen first and respond in ways that fit each person’s life.

Her work blends client-centered care with several structured tools. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are mixed in when they suit the client's goals.

Patricia describes therapy as a collaborative process. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented but also allow space to process painful experiences. She helps clients build specific skills, plan next steps, and notice progress along the way.

Based in Louisiana, she brings three decades of practice to each conversation. People who want help sorting through life changes, addressing trauma, or managing ongoing stress often contact her to begin that work.

How her approaches translate to online work

Patricia often uses client-centered care and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people clarify goals and change unhelpful thinking. Client-centered work means the conversation starts with what matters to the client and follows their priorities. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems in place and trying small experiments to shift them.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance strategies. DBT-informed skills are practical tools for managing intense feelings and reducing reactive behaviors like anger outbursts.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She will work together with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adapt those methods over time as progress is made.

The therapist biography does not specify which online formats she offers, so confirm current session options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also makes it possible to use exercises, worksheets, and mindfulness practices between sessions to support steady skill building.