Patricia Searels

Patricia Searels is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 28 years of experience. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to ease worry, manage anger, and improve relationships. Her style is caring, direct, and cooperative, aimed at helping clients feel heard and make change.

Patricia has practiced in universities, private practice, and nonprofit centers across Florida. She has spent much of her career supporting college students, athletes, young professionals, and adults facing life transitions such as moving, becoming new parents, job changes, and divorce. She also addresses depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and addiction-related concerns.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, solution-focused techniques, and motivational interviewing to create a plan that fits each person. Patricia looks at thinking patterns, present goals, and everyday habits to find small changes that add up. She also uses mindfulness ideas to help with stress and attention.

Sessions emphasize honest feedback and teamwork. Patricia often combines voice or face-to-face conversation with brief written check-ins to keep momentum between meetings. She focuses on building tools clients can use outside the session to manage mood, sleep, eating, and relationships.

People who choose Patricia typically want clear guidance, practical strategies, and a supportive space to work on things like anger, coping with life changes, or improving self-esteem. To start, she asks clients to outline goals and then tailors work to those priorities.

How specific approaches can work online

Patricia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that fuel anxiety, anger, or low mood. CBT focuses on clear steps and homework that can be practiced between sessions. EMDR is used to address distressing memories and reactions by pairing focused attention with guided processing to reduce the hold of past events.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Patricia will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend one or a mix of methods. She frames treatment as a collaborative process where techniques are adjusted based on how the client responds.

The biography mentions a preference for some voice or face-to-face time plus brief written check-ins. Confirm the current session options before booking to know which formats are offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, shorten commute time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. They also support continuing work between in-person meetings by using written messages or brief calls to maintain progress.