About Patricia
Patricia Temple is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with four decades of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and family concerns and helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and changes in life.
Background and approach
Patricia works in both English and Spanish and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone reaching out. Patricia treats relationship and intimacy-related issues with a practical, down-to-earth approach.
She pays attention to how people communicate and how patterns between them keep repeating. Sessions often look at how attachment and past experiences shape current connection and reactions.
Her work also addresses parenting challenges and blended family dynamics. Patricia listens for each person’s strengths and helps them build clearer communication and healthier boundaries.
She supports people coping with trauma, abuse, body image concerns, chronic illness, and caregiver stress. Patricia uses a mix of approaches that include client-centered listening and techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused methods.
She helps clients break unhelpful habits, name emotional needs, and practice new ways of relating. Practical skills and short-term goals are part of many sessions.
People who value respectful listening, clear feedback, and steady encouragement often find this style useful. Patricia encourages people to notice what is working and what they want to change.
She invites clients to take small steps toward stronger relationships and better day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Patricia often draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds influence current relationships. This approach helps people recognize patterns of closeness and distance and improve emotional connection with others.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on active listening and supporting the person’s own understanding of their situation. That work helps clients find their strengths and set goals that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another commonly used method here; it targets unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Patricia collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques based on progress and feedback so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person isn’t possible. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to keep a thread of support between sessions and fit help into a work break or a tight schedule. These formats add flexibility while keeping the focus on therapy goals and real-life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish