Patricia Schofield, LCSW

Patricia Schofield is an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 30 years of professional experience. She focuses on common life struggles such as addictions, relationship and family conflict, grief, anger, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, depression, and self-esteem. Patricia works with people who find it hard to manage overwhelming emotions or repeated patterns that interfere with daily life.

She uses practical, talk-based methods to help people notice what matters to them and try different ways of responding. Patricia draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and build small, steady changes. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns.

Sessions are conversational and focused on what the client wants to address. Patricia tends to break problems into concrete steps and practices skills during sessions to use afterward. She pays attention to strengths and to realistic goals people can work toward between meetings.

With three decades of practice, Patricia brings long experience in supporting people through loss, addiction recovery, and difficult relationship changes. She helps clients set practical goals for coping with stress, making decisions, and improving communication. Her approach aims to be straightforward and goal-oriented while remaining responsive to each person’s pace.

To begin, a prospective client follows the site process to match and schedule a first session. Patricia works in Illinois and conducts sessions in English.

How Patricia uses therapy approaches online