About Patricia
Patricia Temple is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with four decades of clinical work in California. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, anxiety, stress, and other life challenges. Patricia uses clear, practical talk to help people figure out next steps.
She communicates in English and Spanish to reach a wider range of clients. Patricia centers conversations on each person’s real-life strengths. She treats clients as experts in their own stories and helps them build on what already works.
Background and approach
Sessions often look at patterns in relationships and communication. The goal is to change small habits that cause repeated conflict or worry. Her approach draws from attachment-based ideas, client-centered practice, and cognitive behavioral tools.
That means she pays attention to how people connect, listens without judgment, and teaches skills to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses elements from dialectical behavior and emotionally focused work when they fit the client’s needs. Patricia has long experience helping with grief, trauma, addiction concerns, body image, and caregiving stress.
She supports people navigating major life transitions such as aging, adoption and foster care issues, or chronic illness. Her style is steady and practical, with an emphasis on usable strategies rather than long explanations. People who reach out can expect a collaborative process.
Patricia helps set goals, practices communication skills, and reviews progress in each session. She aims to make therapy a manageable part of a busy life and offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of connection shape current relationships. It helps people notice how they react when they feel close or threatened and supports building more supported ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as the expert of their life. The therapist follows the client's pace and offers reflection and acceptance to help clarify values and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship patterns.Patricia sees choosing the right approach as a shared process. She will talk with each client about goals and preferences, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative step helps match practical tools to what a person needs most in their daily life.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and role-play work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can serve for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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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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