Patricia LordLPC, LCPC

Patricia Lord is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Kansas. She brings ten years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, mood changes, and relationship concerns. Patricia writes and listens in a straightforward way so parents and young adults can talk about what matters most to them.

She works with many pregnancy and childbirth related concerns, including postpartum depression and life changes tied to becoming a parent. Patricia also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, eating and food-related issues, and self-esteem struggles. Her background includes work across divorce, co-parenting, step parenting, and adolescent challenges.

Patricia uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s priorities and create a nonjudgmental space for honest conversation. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and she brings mindfulness practices to build calm and focus. Solution-Focused Therapy helps her clients set achievable short-term goals.

Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Patricia helps people identify small steps they can try between meetings. She pays attention to attachment and codependency issues, control concerns, and forgiveness work when those topics come up.

Patricia aims to support women, young adults, and parents who are juggling life changes and emotional strain. Her manner is direct but warm, and she emphasizes realistic strategies people can use every day.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on what matters to the client and creates space for their priorities. Online sessions using this approach let the therapist follow the person's lead and address whatever feels most urgent. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers concrete strategies to change them. Delivered remotely, CBT can include worksheets, thought records, and behavioral experiments that are reviewed together during sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide whether to emphasize CBT, mindfulness, or a solution-focused plan and adjust as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Many people find online therapy helpful because it can fit into busy schedules, avoid travel time, and make brief check-ins easier to arrange. Remote sessions also let clients use tools like guided breathing, screen-shared worksheets, and short between-session tasks to keep momentum between meetings.