About Me



Before becoming a psychotherapist, I practiced law for 14 years as a litigator in a large metropolitan law firm where I excelled at dealing with clients' legal challenges.  During that time, I also dealt with many serious life challenges of my own,

but one day, 

I could no longer deal on my own.  I had a combination of tragedies that simply overwhelmed me. 

​Therapy and art are what helped me get through the pain and trauma.
 But therapy did more than help me survive—it was personally transformative. 

  "Recovery from trauma involves learning how to restore a sense of visceral safety and reclaim a loving relationship with one’s self."
— Bessel van der Kolk
I learned very important things about myself, my relationships, and my coping strategies that profoundly changed my life. 
It was so profound that it inspired me to train to become a psychotherapist so that I could help others transform their lives.  



Since that time, I put the discipline and determination, which was engendered through my legal practice, to good use—by extensively reading and studying about the most recent research in neuroscience and healing, and by training in cutting edge therapy methods.
While a therapist's knowledge, training, and passion are all necessary to facilitate healing, I believe the most essential ingredient needed for healing is the experience of being seen, heard and understood by someone . . . 

Someone for whom you and your experience matters . . . 

Someone who can facilitate access to your own innate wisdom and healing capacities . . .

Someone who can accompany you, with safety, empathy and compassion, through the depths of your pain to a place of transformance.  

I strive to be that person for my clients. 

My experiences in life and my practice as a lawyer, artist, and therapist have enabled me to identify with the pain of many of life’s hardest challenges and to integrate mind, heart and soul in our work together. 

I get it because I've been there.  I know a way through because I learned it. 
I think you will feel that . . .
and that I can help you find your own way to transformance.
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
— Albert Schweitzer
Copyright 2015-2020 by Patricia Dallacroce, JD, MA, LMFT, all rights reserved