Patricia Temple, LMFT

Patricia Temple is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 40 years of experience. She works with adults on relationship concerns, family and parenting issues, intimacy, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Patricia communicates in English and Spanish.

She approaches work with the view that each person brings a distinct story and strengths. Patricia treats clients as the expert on their own life and helps them use their resources to address current problems. She frames sessions as practical conversations about what is getting in the way and what might help next.

Patricia combines attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening to track relationship patterns and build stronger connections. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking, and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when emotion regulation and relational repair are priorities.

In practice she helps people talk through communication breakdowns, work through resentment or anger that keeps recurring, and plan changes for parenting or blended family dynamics. Her work also covers longer-standing issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, and coping with chronic illness or caregiver stress.

Sessions follow a straightforward, goal-oriented style. Patricia will help identify small, concrete steps to try between meetings and check progress over time. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the site.

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