Patty Seahlaigh

Patty Seahlaigh is a licensed professional counselor with 26 years of experience in Missouri. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping someone take the next small step when life feels overwhelming.

She works with people who are coping with grief, addiction, relationship struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Patty also supports concerns tied to adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, and other challenges that affect daily functioning. Her practice includes support around parenting, career stress, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.

Patty uses several practical methods in sessions, including Trauma-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), client-centered work, attachment-based approaches, and motivational interviewing. She aims to help clients notice patterns, practice new behaviors, and manage painful memories or strong emotions in ways that feel manageable.

Sessions are intended to be collaborative. Patty listens for each person’s priorities and then helps set goals that fit their life. She emphasizes concrete coping tools, clearer communication skills, and steps to reduce symptoms that interfere with daily routines.

Having spent many years in clinical practice, Patty draws on broad experience to tailor her approach. People can expect straightforward guidance and steady support while they work toward clearer decision making and improved emotional balance.

How her approaches translate to online care

Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process difficult memories and reduce their hold on daily life by working gently through what happened and building skills to manage strong reactions. It is often used for survivors of abuse, accidents, or other traumatic events.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches practical ways to tolerate difficult feelings while committing to actions that match a person’s values. It can help with anxiety, mood struggles, and decisions that feel stalled.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connections. This approach can be useful for people working through abandonment, foster care or adoption histories, and difficulties forming trust.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made or new needs appear.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing appointments from different locations. Before booking, confirm which session formats are currently offered. The therapist will discuss scheduling, session length, and practical details so sessions can be arranged to work with everyday routines.