David Pecoraro, LMFT

David Pecoraro is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with 37 years of clinical experience. He focuses on relationship problems, addictions, mood concerns, anxiety, and family-of-origin issues. He also works with people dealing with parenting strains, anger, intimacy challenges, and major life changes.

He uses direct, practical work in sessions. That might mean learning clearer ways to handle conflict, practicing communication skills, or mapping how early family roles still affect decisions today. Sessions often include tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Gottman Method along with psychodynamic ideas about past patterns.

David aims to make therapy understandable. He helps people identify patterns that cause repeated problems and then tests small changes to see what works. He talks with clients about goals and adjusts the plan as those goals shift.

He has long experience helping adults with relationship conflict, addictive behaviors, and mood disorders. That background includes work on divorce and separation, blended family issues, fatherhood concerns, and domestic violence and anger management when those topics are part of a client's story.

In practical terms he offers skills for communicating better, managing impulses, reducing anxiety, and coping with grief or big transitions. He also addresses attachment and codependency patterns that trace back to the family someone grew up with. People who want concrete strategies and insight into old patterns may find this approach helpful.

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