Patricia Schofield, LCSW

Illinois · 30 years in practice

Patricia Schofield is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience helping people manage complex life challenges.

License and registration

LCSW, Illinois: 149009711 · expires November 2027
NPI: 1609974302 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 30
Languages: English

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About Patricia

Patricia Schofield is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience helping people manage complex life challenges. She focuses on creating a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about what matters most without feeling judged. Patricia aims to meet people where they are and support realistic steps toward change.

Her work often addresses struggles with addiction, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and stress. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting strains, intimacy issues, and career-related stress.

Background and approach

Patricia pays attention to how past losses or abandonment shape current patterns and coping skills. Patricia uses several guiding approaches in sessions, including Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and cognitive behavioral ideas. She blends these methods to match each person’s needs, using practical tools and clear conversations rather than jargon.

Sessions center on understanding emotions, improving communication, and building manageable strategies for daily life. Clients can expect direct, patient listening paired with straightforward feedback and options for change. Patricia values people’s strengths, hopes, and practical goals when planning next steps.

She encourages small experiments between sessions to test new ways of relating and coping. Working with Patricia is presented as a collaborative process. She supports people through grief, life transitions, addiction recovery, and rebuilding after trauma or losses.

If someone wants a steady, experienced clinician to talk things through and try concrete changes, she can be a steady partner in that work.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Patricia lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Addictions
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Grief
Anger management
Stress, Anxiety
Trauma and abuse
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Depression
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Blended family issues
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Codependency
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family problems
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Post-traumatic stress
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-love
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Patricia names

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Online support

How Patricia’s approaches work online

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions and connection, helping people notice, name, and shift painful feelings that shape behaviors and relationships. It can be useful for managing grief, intimacy concerns, and patterns that repeat in close relationships.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches flexible ways to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying personal values. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, addiction-related urges, and making steady changes aligned with what matters most.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence trust and communication now. That perspective guides work on abandonment, blended family issues, and building more supported ways of relating.

Patricia approaches finding the right method as a joint effort. She listens to concerns and goals, then suggests approaches to try together. If one way isn’t helping, she adapts the plan so sessions stay useful and relevant.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be fast for check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing short exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep steady momentum between sessions.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Patricia commonly address?

She helps people with addictions, relationship and family problems, grief, anger, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, parenting and self-esteem concerns as well as career and life changes.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Sessions are collaborative and emotion-focused with clear, practical suggestions. Patricia listens closely and uses tools from several approaches to help clients try new ways of coping.

What is her professional background?

Patricia has 30 years of professional experience working as a clinical social worker with people facing a wide range of personal and relationship challenges.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds an LCSW and practices in Illinois as a licensed clinical social worker.

Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the steps to begin working together?

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