- Years in practice
- 11
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- South Carolina, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Patricia
Patricia Manning is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on parenting concerns, trauma, and relationship stress. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are, helping parents and individuals sort through anxiety, grief, and life changes. Patricia draws on 11 years of counseling experience to offer steady, practical support.
Her background includes long-term work with children, adolescents, and parents in child protection, foster care, residential treatment, and shelters for domestic violence and sexual assault.
Background and approach
That experience guides her work with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress. She also supports people coping with trauma, dissociation, and compassion fatigue. In session she uses a client-centered stance that emphasizes listening and collaboration.
Patricia also draws from evidence-informed techniques such as cognitive behavioral strategies and dialectical behavior skills to teach coping tools. She uses EMDR approaches when trauma processing is needed and applies attachment-based ideas to help improve close relationships. Her style is direct but compassionate.
She helps clients build practical skills, notice patterns that cause pain, and try new behaviors that fit their values. She will offer gentle challenge when choices appear self-sabotaging and will celebrate small gains along the way. Patricia works from an existential perspective that recognizes common human struggles like loss, responsibility, and meaning.
She tailors treatment to each person's story and life context, helping parents and individuals find clearer purpose and greater balance.
What Patricia works with
Everything Patricia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Patricia helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Patricia lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect present parenting and intimacy. Online sessions can use this approach to identify repeating patterns and practice new ways of relating with family members or partners.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions CBT can include thought records, behavioral experiments, and homework tasks that clients complete between meetings to reduce anxiety, manage depression, or handle parenting stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will collaborate with clients to choose what fits best. Patricia will talk through options, try methods, and adapt strategies based on each person’s goals, pace, and comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let the therapist observe interactions and do real-time skill practice, phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when a shorter touchpoint helps during a busy day. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into family schedules, work breaks, or other life demands while still using evidence-informed techniques.
Questions people ask about Patricia
What kinds of problems can be addressed in sessions?
She helps with stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship issues, depression, ADHD, and related challenges like caregiver stress and attachment issues.
How would you describe the therapy style?
Therapy is client-centered and collaborative, with practical skill-building from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches and trauma-focused methods when appropriate.
What is Patricia's professional background?
She has 11 years of clinical experience and a long history working in child protection, foster care, residential treatment, and shelters for people affected by domestic violence and sexual assault.
Which credentials and region apply?
Patricia holds the LPC credential and has licensure noted as SC LPC and OR LPC, and she practices from Oregon.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the client's needs.
How is cost handled for therapy?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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