Patricia F. Frisch, PhD, is a pastoral counselor (psychotherapy/spirituality) with seventeen years of counseling experience with various populations. She began her career path as an elementary school teacher, then as a director of religious education and continued her education in pastoral counseling. Patricia was the owner and director of several counseling centers under the Clinical and Pastoral Counseling Center, LLC. She earned a BS in education with minors in psychology and theology at the University of Dayton.
Her studies included a summer theology program at Catholic and Christian centers in Europe. She received a master's in theological studies (MTS) at Spring Hill College and an MA in pastoral counseling from La Salle University before entering the PhD program at the Loyola University of Maryland. During the PhD program, Patricia held an externship at Duke University Medical Center. In addition, Patricia earned a fellowship from the Addiction Recovery Institute in Tryon, North Carolina, and a partial fellowship from the Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health director Harold G. Koenig, MD, at Duke University.
Patricia has published Wiley-Blackwell articles in their CrossCurrents journal and one in Wiley-Blackwell's Arthritis and Rheumatology as the first author concerning rheumatology with doctors at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida. She peer-reviewed an article in Frontiers for Harold G. Koenig, MD, Duke University. She and her husband of fifty-three years live in a Del Webb community in Summerville, South Carolina.