About Patricia
Patricia Marchman is an Illinois-licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate challenging life moments.
Background and approach
She draws on a range of evidence-informed therapies to address concerns such as depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, and coping with life changes, while remaining attentive to each client’s unique circumstances. Patricia emphasizes a collaborative, empathetic stance that centers the person rather than the diagnosis.
Her practice supports work on relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief and intimacy-related concerns, sleeping problems, and career or purpose questions. She also brings experience with issues that intersect with health and caregiving, including chronic pain, illness, and hospice or end-of-life needs.
Using tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance-based and attachment-informed approaches, and skills-focused methods like dialectical behavior therapy, Patricia helps clients build practical coping strategies and clarify values to guide meaningful change.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Patricia integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy into her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that align with personal values, which can be helpful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and sleeping difficulties.Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Patricia will work with each person to explore goals, preferences, and how different methods feel in practice, adapting the therapeutic plan over time to fit evolving needs and priorities.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for varied schedules and comfort levels. These options allow clients to access consistent therapeutic support from Illinois while balancing work, caregiving, or health-related constraints, making ongoing care more convenient and sustainable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English