About Patricia
Patricia Presley is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with five years of professional experience. She works with people confronting stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addiction concerns, and life transitions, drawing on evidence-informed strategies to support practical change and emotional healing.
Background and approach
Patricia approaches each person as the expert on their own life and emphasizes building on existing strengths to address challenges and pursue meaningful goals. Her work blends structured skills training with empathic listening and collaboration.
Patricia integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment tools to clarify values and increase psychological flexibility, and client-centered methods that prioritize the client’s perspective. She also brings familiarity with relationship and family matters, caregiver and geriatric concerns, issues around commitment and attachment, and end-of-life and hospice-related stressors.
Patricia offers sessions in English and provides a range of remote formats to make therapy accessible to different schedules and needs.
Online Therapy Approaches and Practical Access
Patricia uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients notice and change thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to distress; CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. She also incorporates acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to support clients in clarifying personal values, increasing psychological flexibility, and learning how to live alongside difficult emotions rather than be governed by them.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Patricia works alongside each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and then combines techniques from different approaches to create a tailored plan that fits the client’s situation and pace.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to engage in therapy. These options make it possible to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, and other commitments while still accessing licensed professionals who use structured methods and supportive conversation to promote progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English