About

Meet Patti Moynihan LMFT

Warm, curious, and on your side.

Patti is not your average therapist. She has spent decades following an insatiable curiosity — psychology, philosophy, and the big question of how people change. She brings all of it into the room with you.

She also genuinely loves this work. Sessions with Patti feel less like an appointment and more like sitting down at a worktable with someone who is fully in your corner.

You are a whole person, not a problem to fix. Patti looks for your strengths first — then helps you put them to work.

Patti Moynihan · Therapist in Mount Pleasant, SC

Her approach

We work as a team.

You bring your life. Patti brings training, curiosity, and a box full of practical tools. You set the direction together — and adjust as you go.

“I believe every person is unique, so I create an approach specific to you.”
— Patti Moynihan

Start where you are. Patti starts by listening to whatever you are ready to share. Sessions begin in the present — what is happening now, and what you want instead. You look back only when it helps you move forward.

Her style is humanistic, collaborative, and strength-based — warm, curious, and always moving toward what works.

Methods Patti draws on

EMDR
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
NLP
Focusing
Gottman Method
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Family systems
Motivational interviewing
Solution-focused therapy
Person-centered
Positive psychology
Skills-based coaching

Many methods, one goal: an approach that fits you.

Why people come

A place to process life

Therapy with Patti is a place to slow down, sort through, and untangle life.

You don’t have to be sick to go to therapy — everybody needs a place to process life. It’s not abnormal to struggle. We all struggle.

A cozy reading corner with an armchair and shelves of well-loved books — Patti reads widely and shares books and resources generously. Expect a recommendation or two.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

— Carl Jung

Education

Two graduate degrees

MA in Psychology

University of West Georgia

MS in Marriage and Family Therapy

Valdosta State University

More about Patti

Patti’s love for this work started long before her degrees. In her early twenties, she grew endlessly curious about how people make meaning and change — in body, mind, and spirit. She has been reading, studying, and practicing ever since.

Part of that curiosity is personal. In college, Patti struggled with binge and purge eating behaviors. The first counselor she asked for help turned her away. It did not feel true to who she was. Through years of therapy and study, she freed herself from those behaviors and found the work she loves most.

That experience shapes how she practices today: no labels, no judgment, real collaboration. Before becoming a therapist, Patti spent years coaching women as they built their own businesses. She has a knack for finding strengths in what people see as weaknesses.

Start where you are.

The first step is a free consultation — a real conversation, no pressure. Bring whatever is on your mind. Patti will meet you there.

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