As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), I provide evidence-based therapy rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help individuals better understand the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. My approach is warm, collaborative, and goal-oriented, designed to support you in identifying unhelpful thought patterns, building coping skills, and making meaningful, lasting changes.
In our work together, I will help you recognize how your thoughts influence your emotions and actions. We’ll explore strategies to challenge and reframe negative thinking, develop practical skills for managing distress, and cultivate more adaptive responses to life’s challenges. Whether you're navigating anxiety, depression, stress, or past trauma, CBT offers tools that empower you to take an active role in your healing and growth.
My therapeutic style includes:
Unconditional Positive Regard – I provide a nonjudgmental, supportive space where you feel heard, valued, and accepted.
Active Listening – I fully engage with your story to ensure your experience is validated and understood.
Gentle Challenge – I respectfully encourage you to confront difficult thoughts and behaviors in a way that fosters insight and resilience.
Faith Integration – For clients who desire it, I offer the opportunity to integrate faith-based perspectives and explore biblical truths as part of the healing journey.
Whether you're new to therapy or returning to it, I’m here to meet you where you are and walk alongside you at your own pace.
Additional areas of focus: Relationship issues, Grief, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, Aging and geriatric issues, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Eating and food-related issues, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Phobias, Social anxiety and phobia, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy
FL LCSW SW11360
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Pattra Dodd. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
Pattra’s CBT knowledge/skills along with her kind and professional demeanor have made a huge impact in my life.
Written on Jun 17, 2025 after therapy with Pattra for 2 years and 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, and coaching
Pattra has helped me so much by listening, explaining, and giving me things to work on or practices to help better myself. Very down to earth and takes my well-being seriously!
Written on Apr 29, 2025 after therapy with Pattra for 4 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes
Pattra is very friendly and helpful in moving me out of my old stuck ways of thinking and acting, and has been monumental in creating the shift I’ve been trying to figure out on my own for my whole life.
Written on Mar 17, 2025 after therapy with Pattra for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self esteem
Pattra is just overall a wonderful human; she is considerate, kind, and knows how to redirect conversation gently when getting off track from the original point. Pattra routinely checks in outside of our sessions and will conversate in messages outside of our sessions together. I never feel as if she is unavailable to me, and I know I can reach out to her whenever and she will not make me feel like a burden to do so.
Written on Dec 03, 2024 after therapy with Pattra for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and eating disorders
Pattra Dodd is so easy to talk to, she takes notes and can recall past experiences and people that I’ve spoken about so that she truly personalizes what she says to you. She is very professional and cares. There are some weeks that I wonder if I need to talk and once I have the appointment it becomes obvious that I did need to talk. I’m doing better with her help
Written on Jul 16, 2024 after therapy with Pattra for 1 year and 7 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes
I appreciate that she remembers our past conversations. She listens!
Written on Apr 26, 2024 after therapy with Pattra for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, sleeping disorders, and coping with life changes