Lanita Sunshine Patterson, LPC

Lanita Sunshine Patterson invites people to give themselves grace as they move toward healing and healthier living. With a warm, person-centered approach she blends authenticity and transparency to support exploration of values, triggers, and thought patterns so clients can build intentional lives with greater emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical balance.

She holds an MA - Master of Arts - and is credentialed as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a Licensed Professional Addiction Counselor (LAC), and a certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (AADC). Those qualifications reflect focused training in general counseling and specialized work with substance use and addiction recovery. Over her practice she has worked with anxiety, depression, life transitions, behavioral challenges, substance abuse, self-esteem concerns, stress, career issues, compassion fatigue, and related coaching needs.

Lanita draws on a variety of treatment methods to meet each person where they are, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Enhancement approaches, Solution-Focused work, and Client-Centered methods. She aims to empower people to manage everyday stress, identify and respond to triggers, and challenge negative self-talk while feeling respected and validated. She approaches each therapeutic relationship with the goal of helping individuals move toward the life they desire and will walk alongside them through that process.