Patrice Stevens

Patrice Stevens is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who has been providing counseling services in Texas since 1990. With decades of experience, she supports people facing a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, PTSD, depression, stress and anxiety, anger, relationship challenges, parenting skills, and self-care, along with many other emotional and psychological difficulties.

Her perspective is rooted in two guiding ideas: unwanted or harmful patterns often reflect unhealed wounds from the past, and anger frequently functions as a cover for deeper pain. In her work, she helps clients look beneath the surface of reactions and behaviors to better understand what is driving them and what is needed for meaningful change.

Patrice has extensive experience helping individuals who have lived through trauma in childhood or adulthood, including physical, emotional, mental, and sexual trauma. Using an informed approach to trauma therapy, she focuses on helping clients acknowledge and hold their experience without needing to relive traumatic events. The healing process may include identifying how trauma is showing up in daily life, exploring its impact on growth and development, addressing anxious thoughts and feelings of "not being enough," practicing radical acceptance, and building practical coping strategies such as self-soothing, emotion regulation, healthy self-esteem, and stronger communication and conflict-management skills.

Her counseling style is compassionate and accepting while also direct, straightforward, and solutions-oriented. Patrice views therapy as a partnership in which the client and therapist work as a team to clarify concerns, set goals, and take consistent steps toward the changes the client wants. She aims to help clients face fears, strengthen coping skills, and move each session closer to the goals established for therapy.