- Relationship concerns
- Parenting support
- Attachment work
About Patricia
Patricia Temple is a California LMFT with about 40 years of professional experience. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, and parenting. She also works with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Patricia approaches work with the view that each person brings their own personality and history into relationships. She treats clients as experts on their own stories and looks for existing strengths to build on. Sessions are straightforward and practical, aimed at clarifying patterns that create recurring conflict or distance.
Her practice pays particular attention to family of origin patterns such as roles, expectations, and attachment dynamics that keep repeating in adult relationships. She helps people notice those patterns, name them, and make different choices when they want to. Work may include improving communication, addressing commitment or control issues, and handling blended family or adoption and foster care concerns.
Patricia uses a mix of approaches drawn from attachment-based work, client-centered methods, and cognitive-behavioral techniques, among others. This combination supports both emotional understanding and concrete behavior change. She also brings strategies from emotionally-focused and dialectical approaches when regulating strong feelings and improving closeness.
She offers services in English and Spanish in California. The practice recognises that taking the first step can feel difficult, and the initial contact is focused on matching goals and practical next steps.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early patterns of closeness and distance affect current relationships. It helps people identify the ways they seek comfort or withdraw and supports changing those patterns to improve connection. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and the client’s own goals. It involves reflecting what matters to the person and building on strengths they already have to make decisions and changes.Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Patricia will discuss different approaches and together the client and therapist decide which methods fit the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning can change over time as progress and challenges become clearer.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time compared with meeting in person. Therapists often use video for face-to-face conversation or phone for brief check-ins, depending on what suits scheduling, comfort with being on camera, and the practical needs of the session.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
40+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of relationship and family concerns does she address?
She works with relationship problems, family conflict, intimacy issues, and related concerns such as communication and commitment problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She combines client-centered listening with attachment-based and cognitive-behavioral strategies to identify patterns and try practical changes.
How much experience does she have?
She has about 40 years of professional experience as a California LMFT.
Where is her practice based?
Her practice is located in California and she holds a CA LMFT credential.
Which languages can sessions be held in?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and services; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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