Bret Patterson, LPC

Bret Patterson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Mississippi with four years of clinical experience. He works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief and loss, anger, depression, addictions, relationship strain, and intimacy-related concerns. He also lists codependency and a range of related issues among his focus areas.

Before moving into counseling, he spent 25 years as a paramedic and clinical educator. That background shaped a practical, down-to-earth way of talking about problems and solutions. Sessions are conversational and goal-directed, with room to process feelings and plan next steps.

He uses methods drawn from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), the Gottman Method, and mindfulness-based work. Those approaches are used to help people reduce anxious thinking, manage intense emotions, and improve communication in close relationships.

In a typical session he listens to what matters most to the person, then suggests skills, experiments, or conversation practices to try between meetings. He adapts pacing and tools depending on how someone responds and what they want to accomplish.

Bret emphasizes practical supports for everyday life - breaking down overwhelming problems, learning emotion-regulation skills, and improving how people set boundaries and ask for what they need. He invites straightforward talk about what is working and what is not, and he helps people build small, realistic changes over time.

How his main approaches guide online work