Patricia (Pat) La Plante, LPC

Patricia (Pat) La Plante is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 31 years of clinical experience. She has worked in hospitals, private practice, and community agencies, and has provided crisis support after disasters and traumatic events. Pat focuses on grief, trauma, and a broad range of life challenges including anger and relationship struggles.

Pat draws on long practice with people facing serious losses and sudden events. She has worked in mobile crisis teams and at organizations that serve people in acute need. That background informs how she responds to stress, trauma, and grief in the therapy room.

Her training includes a BA in Communications from Virginia Tech, an MA in counseling, and an MA in spiritual formation. Early work with eating disorder patients led her to study nutrition as a helpful complement to counseling. Those experiences contribute practical knowledge when medical or caregiving issues appear in sessions.

Pat describes her role as guide, mentor, and encourager. She helps people look at how their situation developed and what keeps old patterns going. Sessions are conversational and direct, with attention to emotions, behaviors, and the life events that led to current struggles.

People often come to her for anger, grief, anxiety, depression, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports those wrestling with forgiveness, guilt, family of origin issues, and life purpose. Pat works with clients to identify concrete next steps and clearer priorities.

Her approach is practical and relational. She encourages people to name their goals, try changes between sessions, and notice what helps. If someone needs a different focus later on, she collaborates to adjust the work together.

How her approaches translate to online work