About Pascale
Pascale Dellefield uses a blend of evidence-based approaches to help people reconnect with what matters in their lives. She brings a warm, heart-centered style to sessions and focuses on practical skills like mindfulness, coping strategies, and communication.
Background and approach
Pascale’s work aims to reduce anxiety, manage mood challenges, and improve relationship and family dynamics. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 21 years of professional experience.
Over her career she has supported people facing depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, and chronic stress. She also helps clients address intimacy concerns, body image, parenting strains, career stress, and self-esteem struggles.
Pascale draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on each person’s goals and values. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage intense emotions and improve coping.
Mindfulness practices and solution-focused work are woven in to build daily habits and short-term wins. Her background includes long-term clinical practice and work with diverse life challenges.
She notes experience with family of origin issues, blended family concerns, attachment and codependency patterns, and problems related to divorce or separation. Pascale also brings sensitivity to cultural and spiritual dimensions important to many clients.
Sessions typically include collaborative goal-setting, simple skill-building exercises, and optional take-home practice. Pascale aims to tailor conversations and treatment plans to each person’s unique needs and circumstances.
How Pascale’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy keeps conversation focused on each person’s values and goals, helping clarify what matters and guiding decisions about next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to concerns, discuss goals, and suggest which methods to try first. Together they’ll adjust the plan based on what helps most, mixing mindfulness, skill practice, and short-term solutions when useful.
Online sessions offer flexibility and easier access to regular care. Video calls let people read nonverbal cues and practice skills in conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions, do brief coaching, or get quick support during a busy day. These options help fit therapy into work, parenting, or other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English