David Pecoraro
Family-focused therapist for relationships
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About David
David Pecoraro is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with many years of experience helping people navigate relationship and parenting challenges. He focuses on common family concerns such as relationship conflict, communication breakdowns, parenting stress, and issues related to intimacy and addiction. David speaks plainly and aims to create a practical plan clients can use at home.
He draws on approaches that help people change how they respond to problems.
Background and approach
That includes work to reduce anxiety, manage mood changes, and cope after trauma or abuse. He also addresses anger, self-esteem, and life transitions that affect family functioning. In sessions he teaches specific skills for handling conflict and improving communication.
He uses techniques that help partners repair interactions and rebuild trust after betrayals or infidelity. For people dealing with substance use or addictive behavior he combines behavior-focused work with attention to relationship patterns. His training and long practice inform a thoughtful, steady style.
David blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - which looks at thoughts and behaviors - with the Gottman Method for couples and psychodynamic ideas about how past relationships shape current ones. He and the client set clear goals and practical steps together.
David holds a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, LMFT, and has spent decades working with adults on relationship and family matters. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through a mix of online formats to fit busy lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
David uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Gottman Method as primary tools in online sessions. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that worsen anxiety, depression, or addictive patterns. The Gottman Method focuses on communication skills and conflict repair to improve relationship interactions and reduce repeated arguments.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. He works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. That conversation guides session plans and the skills emphasized so therapy feels relevant and usable at home.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments, practice new skills between meetings, and involve partners when helpful. The variety of formats supports flexible, ongoing work on relationships, parenting, and personal coping.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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