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- Attachment work
- CBT and DBT skills
- Parenting support
About Patricia
Patricia Temple, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 40 years of experience. She helps people address relationship and intimacy concerns, family and parenting challenges, stress and anxiety, addictions, trauma, mood difficulties, and self-esteem struggles. Sessions are grounded in approaches she uses, including Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. She works in both English and Spanish.
Patricia emphasizes that each person brings their own history and strengths to therapy. She views clients as experts on their lives and builds on existing abilities to face current problems. Conversations focus on practical steps and clearer communication rather than abstract theory.
In sessions she pays attention to how people connect with others and to patterns that repeat in close relationships. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work to address unhelpful thoughts and from dialectical behavior approaches to teach coping skills. Emotionally-focused and attachment-based ideas guide work on closeness and trust.
Her practice includes help for parenting issues and for people dealing with major life changes such as illness, caregiving, adoption and foster care concerns, or aging-related stress. She also addresses anger, body image, eating issues, codependency, and communication problems.
People who come to her can expect straightforward conversation and practical tools. She encourages a step-by-step pace and checks in about what feels useful. To begin, follow the site’s process to complete the matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
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Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions
Patricia uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past and present relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps when trust, closeness, or fear of abandonment affect daily life. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes listening and working from the client’s perspective to build solutions that feel doable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss goals and preferences and help decide which methods to try. The plan can shift as progress is tracked and new needs emerge, keeping collaboration central to the process.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a weekday or work break and to keep appointments when travel or caregiving makes in-person visits harder. Video sessions let a therapist and client use visual cues during emotional work, and phone sessions can be a shorter check-in when time or bandwidth is limited. Licensed therapists aim to make sessions practical and applicable to daily life.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
40+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English, Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She addresses relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family conflicts, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, mood concerns, and self-esteem problems.
What is her therapeutic style?
She combines client-centered listening with practical tools from CBT and DBT and uses attachment and emotionally-focused ideas for relationship work.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 40 years of professional experience in clinical work.
What are her credentials and location?
She is an LMFT licensed in California.
Which languages are offered?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Does she work with international clients?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How do sessions and fees work?
Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, call 911, or call or text 988.