About Glenda
Glenda Dillingham is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, and LGBTQ concerns. Her approach is respectful and down-to-earth, aimed at making therapy feel manageable and practical.
Glenda shapes sessions around each person's needs and goals. She listens first, then offers strategies that fit the client's life. Conversations are straightforward and focused on small steps that add up to real change.
Background and approach
She blends techniques from attachment work, client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior ideas, and emotionally-focused methods. That mix lets her address intense emotions, relationship patterns, and unhelpful thinking with flexible tools. Clients can expect both emotional support and concrete skills practice.
Glenda has worked with people dealing with first responder stress, veteran and armed forces issues, gender dysphoria, hospice and end-of-life concerns, infidelity and jealousy, and multicultural matters. She also addresses obsessive-compulsive symptoms, paranoia, personality disorder concerns, and non-monogamous relationships when those issues arise. Her style is collaborative and practical.
She helps people set clear goals, try new behaviors between sessions, and track progress. The aim is steady, understandable progress rather than quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how people connect with others. It helps uncover patterns in relationships and supports building safer, more satisfying ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experience and pace, offering a listening space that helps people feel heard and make choices that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful thinking.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review symptoms, goals, and preferences and then suggest approaches that feel like a good match. Decisions about methods are made together and can change as progress unfolds.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people see facial cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a tight schedule. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to work through quick concerns, practice skills between sessions, or stay in contact when typing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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