About Arthur
Arthur Brendze is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of practice in California. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with relationship strain, anxiety, low self-esteem, life transitions, and issues related to LGBTQ concerns. He aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where clients can speak openly and set realistic goals.
He uses a straightforward, collaborative style. Sessions typically start by listening to what matters most to the client and then building a plan based on their priorities.
Background and approach
That plan can include practical tools for stress, coping strategies for change, and steps to improve communication and confidence. Over three decades Arthur has worked with people facing grief, trauma, addiction, and career or parenting stress. He also addresses concerns such as body image, attachment and relationship patterns, and feelings of emptiness or abandonment.
His experience spans many common life difficulties rather than a single niche. Arthur tailors conversation and exercises to fit each person’s needs. He balances short-term problem solving with attention to longer-term patterns that affect relationships and mood.
The aim is to help clients feel steadier and more able to handle everyday challenges. Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients. People can choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their schedule and comfort.
Evidence-based approaches and online sessions
Arthur uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and improved daily functioning. One approach emphasizes behavior-focused strategies that help people practice new ways of responding to anxiety or stress, useful for phobias, panic, and avoidance patterns. Another approach looks at relationship and attachment patterns to help people improve communication, set boundaries, and feel more supported in close connections.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist starts by hearing your goals and concerns, then recommends techniques that fit your needs and comfort. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as therapy progresses so the methods stay relevant to your situation.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when a longer session or visual cues help. Phone sessions can be a good choice if bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are offered for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support, or when a written format feels easier to use. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work, travel, or caregiving schedules while still working toward your goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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