About Patricia
Patricia Temple is a licensed marriage and family therapist with four decades of clinical experience in California. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, parenting strains, intimacy-related issues, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and mood difficulties. Patricia works in both English and Spanish and draws on practical methods to help people find clearer ways forward.
Over her career Patricia has practiced approaches that pay attention to how people attach and relate to one another.
How Patricia works
She uses client-centered techniques to help people name what matters to them and to build on existing strengths. Cognitive behavioral strategies are used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more useful habits. Sessions tend to be straightforward and collaborative.
Patricia listens first, then helps people try small changes. She frames work as coaching when that fits, and as therapy when deeper patterns come into view. Her style aims to be respectful and grounded rather than overly technical.
Patricia also supports people dealing with grief, body image concerns, chronic illness or caregiving stress, and adjustment after life changes. She has experience with attachment concerns, blended family issues, adoption and foster care matters, and challenges around commitment and control. Her professional credential is LMFT, which stands for licensed marriage and family therapist.
Patricia’s practice is based in California and she brings long experience to each conversation.
Patricia lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Patricia works with
The areas below are the ones Patricia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How her approaches fit online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how people connect and respond in close relationships. Online work can help identify patterns of trust and distance, and then practice new ways of reaching out or setting boundaries. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person’s own goals and strengths; the therapist listens with empathy and helps clients make choices that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers practical exercises to change them.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Patricia will discuss goals and preferences, then recommend ways of working that match the concern and the person’s comfort level. That choice is collaborative and can be revisited as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and hold longer conversations. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break in the day or help when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, written reflections, and added flexibility when schedules are tight.
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