Patricia Manning , LPC

Patricia Manning, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor who supports individuals and families navigating stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and relationship challenges. She holds licenses in South Carolina and Oregon (SC LPC 6060, OR LPC C5983) and brings a compassionate, practical approach to therapy that focuses on resilience and meaningful change.

Her clinical path includes early work with children and families affected by violence, roles in child protection, permanency planning and adoptions, and therapeutic work in foster care, residential treatment facilities, psychiatric hospitals, alternative schools and a shelter for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. She earned a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Webster University in 2008 to deepen her skills and better serve clients across a range of needs.

Manning grounds her practice in existential ideas about meaning, loss and responsibility while also attending to each person through a biopsychosocial lens that considers unique life circumstances. She uses a client-centered stance and an eclectic set of evidence-informed tools, including trauma-focused cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, narrative and family therapies, solution-focused methods and play-based interventions. She honors each person’s journey, offers steady support, and challenges patterns that keep people stuck so they can move toward greater balance and purpose.

Approaches That Guide Online Care

Patricia draws from several well-established therapies to address a range of concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns - it helps people understand and repair ways of relating that affect intimacy, parenting and family dynamics. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the therapist's empathic listening and support so individuals can explore values, increase self-understanding and find their own solutions for issues like stress, depression and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical, skills-based strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to develop more effective coping skills for anxiety, mood concerns and anger management.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is done collaboratively. Patricia works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs and preferences, adapting techniques over time as those needs evolve.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, reduce travel time and maintain continuity when schedules change. Licensed professionals can deliver many of the same evidence-informed approaches through these formats, offering flexibility while keeping the focus on progress and practical support.