Patricia Temple
Calm, experienced family-focused therapy
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patricia
Patricia Temple is a licensed marriage and family therapist with four decades of experience in California. She draws on long practice to guide people through relationship and parenting concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and frames work around each person's strengths.
She treats relationship difficulties, family conflicts, and intimacy-related issues. Parenting challenges are a frequent focus, with attention to how each family member's personality affects the household. Patricia helps clients sort through stress, anxiety, and life changes that affect family life.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on listening first and building on what already works in a family. She uses familiar, practical methods to change interaction patterns and reduce conflict. The goal is clearer communication and more reliable ways to handle everyday problems.
Patricia also has experience with trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, eating and body image concerns, anger, and low self-esteem. She brings attachment and emotion-focused ideas into sessions to help people feel understood and connected. Cognitive-behavioral and dialectical strategies are added when skills and new habits are needed.
Sessions may focus on immediate problems or longer-term growth. Patricia treats issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, codependency, commitment and control issues, and blended family dynamics. She encourages a practical plan and small changes families can try between meetings.
Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative step. Patricia supports clients in identifying priorities, testing new ways of relating, and measuring progress over time. Her emphasis is on steady, realistic improvement rather than quick fixes.
How Patricia's Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships form and stay strong. It looks at patterns of closeness and distance so families can feel more connected and understood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and share deep emotions during conversations and rebuild trust when connections are strained.Patricia brings these approaches into a collaborative process. She will talk with clients about goals and try different methods to see what fits best. Together they choose strategies that match the family's priorities and daily life.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexible access. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep work going between in-person options. The variety lets families pick what feels practical and comfortable while still focusing on improving communication and solving real problems.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
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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
Next step
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