- Years in practice
- 40
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Patricia
Patricia Temple is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with four decades of professional experience in California. She focuses on relationship and family concerns and supports people facing parenting challenges. Patricia speaks English and Spanish and brings a steady, practical approach to sessions.
She treats problems like stress, anxiety, depression, and issues with intimacy and connection. She also helps people working through addiction, trauma and abuse, eating and body image concerns, anger, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Patricia makes space for discussions about life transitions and coping when circumstances change. Her work emphasizes listening first. She sees people as the experts in their own stories and helps them build on their strengths.
Sessions tend to be conversational and goal oriented, with an eye toward what will make daily life more manageable. Patricia draws from approaches that focus on relationships, thoughts and emotions. She may use techniques that address attachment patterns, restructure unhelpful thinking, or help people regulate intense emotions.
The style is collaborative and practical, not overly technical. Clients can expect help sorting out communication problems, blended family concerns, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness impacts, and decision points around commitment and control. Patricia also offers coaching-style support for specific goals and life changes.
What Patricia works with
Everything Patricia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Patricia helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- 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
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Patricia lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How relational and skills-based therapies translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connections. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice different ways of relating in real conversations.Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding a person's perspective without judgment. In virtual meetings the therapist offers empathic listening and reflection to help people clarify values and make choices that fit their life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thought patterns that lead to distress and then test and change them. That work often includes short between-session exercises and practical homework that can be shared over messaging or reviewed on video.
Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. Goals and methods may shift as the work progresses and new needs appear.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - let people fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and demonstrations. Phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text are helpful for shorter check-ins, processing between sessions, and tracking homework. These options aim to increase flexibility and make consistent work on relationship and parenting concerns more feasible.
Questions people ask about Patricia
What kinds of concerns does Patricia address?
She works with relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and body image problems, anger, and low self-esteem.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is conversational and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients set practical goals and build on existing strengths.
How much experience does she have?
She has 40 years of professional experience working with a wide range of relationship and family concerns.
What credential does she hold and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, licensed in California and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for therapy?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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