Frances Patton

Frances Patton meets people who are ready for change and refuses to let them settle for the status quo. She recognizes that reaching out for therapy often stems from a clear hope and determination that life can and must improve, and she focuses on guiding clients toward concrete, lasting progress rather than offering platitudes.

She combines clinical training, compassion, and practical experience to help clients move to a better place. Frances is trained in Gottman Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy - two well-researched approaches to couples work - and she has seen powerful results with both methods. She works with couples, individuals, and families, tailoring interventions to each situation.

Patton draws on personal experience as well. She has experienced depression, navigated a difficult marriage and subsequent divorce, and has been in therapy herself. Those experiences inform her empathy and commitment to the therapeutic process and are part of why she chose this profession.

She holds licensure as a marriage and family therapist in both South Carolina and North Carolina and brings 13 years of clinical experience to her practice. Her approach is caring and nonjudgmental - she avoids dismissive responses and focuses on practical, collaborative work to help clients reach their goals.

Frances provides both faith-informed Christian counseling when requested and non-religious therapy for those who prefer that route. She offers support for stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem and depression, family conflict and trauma, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting challenges, anger management, and coping with life changes.