About Peter
Dr. Peter McGlynn helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about relationships and identity. He makes space for honest talk about intimacy, self-worth, stress, addiction, and loss.
Dr. McGlynn is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California with 31 years of clinical experience. He listens first and then shapes sessions to fit each person's needs.
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at practical next steps.
How Peter works
He takes a respectful and compassionate approach when people bring sensitive topics like HIV/AIDS, kink and alternative sexual culture, or past trauma. Dr. McGlynn supports people working through relationship strains, parenting challenges, or career transitions.
He also addresses anger, eating and sleeping difficulties, and grief. When physical health or chronic pain is part of the picture, he brings that into the plan instead of avoiding it. He pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues that can affect how people connect with others.
Concerns about body image, shame, or guilt are explored in a paced, nonjudgmental way. Therapy sessions include practical tools for coping with anxiety, stress, and life changes. Sessions may include short-term coaching goals or longer work on deep-rooted patterns.
Dr. McGlynn adapts the focus as needs evolve and helps clients set achievable steps between meetings.
What Peter works with
The areas below are the ones Peter selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Dr. McGlynn uses well-established, evidence-based techniques that focus on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. Cognitive approaches help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teach simple skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change behaviors that get in the way of daily life.He also works with relational and attachment-focused ideas that look at how past experiences shape present connections. This approach helps when trust, abandonment, or communication problems keep showing up in relationships and intimacy issues.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and trials, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust over time so the work matches what matters to you.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for longer, in-depth work, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging allows brief check-ins, quick coaching, or emotional support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or irregular schedules.
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