Patricia Wolfenden, LMHC, LMFT
Practical, relationship-focused therapy for life challenges
About Patricia
Patricia Wolfenden uses a practical, relationship-focused approach to help people facing addiction, trauma, grief, and relationship stress. She brings 25 years of counseling experience and works from a perspective that centers a person’s strengths.
Background and approach
Patricia is a licensed mental health counselor and a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida. She believes people know important parts of their own story and can build on what already works for them.
In sessions she listens for what matters most, then helps people test small changes that fit their life. Conversations are grounded and plain, aimed at making progress one step at a time.
Patricia draws on methods that address thoughts, feelings, and relationships. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thinking, and attachment-based ideas to look at how close relationships affect stress.
She also brings acceptance-oriented practices to help people tolerate difficult feelings while choosing values-based action. Many referrals reflect concerns like anxiety, depression, anger, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people dealing with family conflict, addiction, chronic illness, grief, and life transitions. Additional areas include adoption and foster care, divorce and separation, and communication problems.
Sessions may feel like a guided conversation with concrete suggestions and simple exercises to try between meetings. Patricia aims to help people make manageable shifts that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Her work is informed by long experience helping others navigate change.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Patricia uses a mix of approaches that focus on thoughts, feelings, and relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early and current relationship patterns affect stress and connection, which can help people improve communication and emotional safety. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patricia will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and together you will decide which methods to try. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so interventions fit the issues you bring and the pace you prefer. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face-to-face when a larger conversation or shared visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick questions, brief reflections, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, and daily life while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English