Patricia Riley

Patricia Riley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people work through hard moments. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. Patricia aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion from the first conversation.

Her work often addresses relationship and family tension, parenting challenges, and issues connected to trauma or grief. She also supports those dealing with addictions, LGBT concerns, eating and body image issues, and career or life transitions. Patricia includes concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue among the topics she can address.

In sessions she adapts the conversation and plan to match each person’s needs. She uses practical techniques drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and move toward clearer choices. The approach is straightforward and goal oriented, with attention to the person’s values and strengths.

Patricia brings experience with additional situations like adoption and foster care, blended family stress, caregiver strain, and end-of-life counseling. She also works with people facing fertility, divorce, or disaster-related challenges. Her practice centers on supporting someone through change and helping them build small, usable steps forward.

Patricia practices in California and conducts sessions in English. She encourages people to reach out when they are ready to begin and will shape a plan that fits their circumstances.

How Patricia’s approaches translate to online work

Patricia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot thoughts and behaviors that keep stress or anger going, then try small experiments to change them. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify what matters to them and strengthen the motivation to make change.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Patricia will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, current challenges, and preferences. This is a collaborative process where plans can change as progress is made.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time for appointments. It can also help people maintain continuity of care during transitions and make scheduling around work or caregiving simpler. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and Motivational Interviewing tools to an online setting so work continues between sessions.