About Patricia
Patricia Temple is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with four decades of experience. She centers her work on relationship and family concerns, and on the everyday stresses that can make life feel overwhelming. Patricia speaks English and Spanish and aims to help people find clearer ways forward when they feel stuck.
Her approach treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on practical steps and honest conversations rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Patricia listens for patterns in relationships, attachment, and communication that may be keeping people from closer connection or calmer days. She draws on approaches such as attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral techniques to address worry, low mood, and problems that repeat in relationships. Patricia also uses client-centered and emotionally-focused ideas to strengthen how people communicate and reconnect when trust has been hurt.
These methods are applied in simple, hands-on ways during sessions. Over her career she has helped people with parenting stress, grief, addiction concerns, body image, chronic illness, and many other life challenges. She pays attention to issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress when these come up in therapy.
Patricia believes starting therapy takes courage and treats that first step as important. She works with each person to set realistic goals, build on strengths, and practice new ways of relating that fit their daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions and practical benefits
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds and current relationships shape how people respond to stress and closeness. It helps when fear of abandonment, trust issues, or patterns of withdrawal keep showing up in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different actions to change mood and behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Patricia will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals and comfort level. She explains options, checks in on what helps, and adjusts the plan so it fits the client's needs and pace.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact from different locations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a quick way to check in. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins, follow-up notes, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility and help people stay consistent with care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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