Patricia Searels, LPC, LCMHC
Compassionate, practical therapy with body-focused insight
About Patricia
Patricia Searels is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in Florida. She brings 28 years of work in universities, independent practice, and nonprofit centers to sessions. Patricia helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, and life changes.
She uses a calm, straightforward style and focuses on the goals each person brings to therapy. Patricia combines body-centered work with practical talking therapies.
Background and approach
She blends Somatic Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness skills. This means sessions may include attention to physical sensations, breathing, and present-moment awareness alongside thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. Her past work has included college students, athletes, young professionals, and adults across life stages.
She has experience addressing adjustment to changes like moving, new parenthood, job shifts, and divorce. Patricia also supports people struggling with addictions, intimacy-related concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting stress, and bipolar mood challenges. Sessions are collaborative and direct.
Patricia emphasizes respect, honesty, and practical tools people can use between meetings. She tailors plans to each person rather than following a single method. Her schedule is flexible and she often combines voice or video time with brief messaging when needed.
People who want straightforward guidance and a mix of body-focused and cognitive strategies often find this approach useful. Patricia aims to help clients build skills for more ease, clearer relationships, and better day-to-day coping.
How Somatic, CBT, and EMDR translate to online work
Somatic Therapy focuses on body awareness and how sensations relate to feelings and stress. Online sessions can still use guided breath work, grounding exercises, and attention to posture to help people notice and shift bodily responses to anxiety or trauma.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In virtual sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying new behaviors between meetings, and using worksheets or short exercises together on screen.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used for processing traumatic memories. When adapted for remote care, it can involve guided attention tasks and structured processing tailored to the person’s comfort level and pace.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms, and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what feels most helpful for the individual.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Sessions can happen by video or phone, and shorter check-ins can be done through live chat or text messaging. This variety lets people balance therapy with busy days, travel, or caregiving, while keeping continuity of care across life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English