About Porshea
Porshea Pendleton is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Oregon with 24 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, grief, and other emotional concerns. Porshea offers a compassionate, faith-informed perspective for clients who want that approach and adapts her work to each person’s needs.
Porshea uses direct, practical strategies in sessions. She helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxious and depressive feelings.
Background and approach
She also supports people working through intimacy and communication problems in relationships. When appropriate, she draws on tools from the Gottman Method to improve how partners talk and solve problems. Her work also includes support for people coping with anger, eating concerns, bipolar symptoms, and complicated life events like loss or separation.
She has experience with attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care histories, blended family stress, and cancer-related adjustment. Porshea adapts her approach to each issue rather than offering a single fixed path. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented.
Clients set priorities and track what changes between meetings. Porshea aims to make therapy feel usable for everyday life and clear about next steps. Porshea conducts sessions in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
People interested in starting can complete a short matching questionnaire to find a good fit and schedule a first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Porshea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT focuses on practical skills you can practice between sessions to shift reactions and reduce distress.She also incorporates elements of the Gottman Method to address communication and conflict in relationships. Those techniques focus on improving how partners talk, listen, and solve problems so daily interactions feel safer and more constructive.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques that fit your situation, and adjust the plan based on what works. Clients and the therapist work together to find the mix of strategies that fits needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity of care when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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