Patricia Van de Vyver

Patricia Van de Vyver, LMSW, centers her practice on a person-focused approach that honors each client’s pace and goals. She prioritizes a nonjudgmental environment where people can talk openly about stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and feelings of isolation or loneliness. Patricia invites clients to shape the work together and focuses on what matters most to them. With five years of experience in clinical settings, she adapts conversations and strategies to each person’s needs. Sessions often include talking through current problems, identifying practical steps, and noticing patterns that get in the way of change. Patricia uses direct, relatable language so people can leave sessions with something they can try that week. Her background blends several approaches to fit different concerns. She draws on client-centered work to build trust, cognitive behavioral ideas to reframe unhelpful thoughts, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas also inform how she helps people understand what holds them back and what motivates them to change. Patricia often supports people dealing with relationship strains, family-of-origin issues, grief, parenting stress, career transition, and sleep problems. She also works with mood concerns such as bipolar symptoms, panic attacks, seasonal mood shifts, and chronic feelings of guilt or shame. Scheduling can be flexible to suit working lives and caregiving demands. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability.

How her approaches shape online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood and can explore what matters to them. It helps with building trust, working through loneliness, and deciding on personal goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In short sessions, it helps identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep issues. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These skills can be useful for coping with strong moods, addiction triggers, and relationship conflict. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made. For session logistics, confirm current options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use video or audio depending on how they prefer to communicate and how much bandwidth or focused time they have.