Patricia Wolfenden, LMHC, LMFT

Patricia Wolfenden is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Florida with 25 years of professional experience. She works with adults facing issues such as addictions, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, grief, stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, career pressures, and depression. Sessions begin with straightforward conversation about current struggles and goals.

Her approach centers on practical, evidence-informed methods. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult feelings without getting overwhelmed, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Attachment-Based ideas and Emotionally-Focused Therapy inform how she talks about relationship patterns and emotional responses.

Patricia treats anger as one issue among many that affect daily life and relationships. She helps people recognize what triggers their anger, what holds resentment in place, and what smaller changes reduce snapping or avoidance. Work often includes clear behavioral steps and emotion regulation strategies.

She also addresses problems tied to family history, abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, and chronic illness or pain. Other focuses include codependency, communication problems, domestic violence aftermath, substance use concerns, and forgiveness work.

Her style is client-centered: she listens for strengths and builds on them while setting realistic steps forward. Practical tasks between sessions are commonly used to test new ways of relating and coping. To begin, she asks people to describe what they hope to change and what matters most to them.

How her approaches guide online work