- Relationship focus
- Strengths oriented
- Speaks Spanish
About Patricia
Patricia Temple is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings 40 years of clinical work to sessions and focuses on relationship and family concerns. Patricia also helps people with parenting challenges, intimacy issues, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, and depression.
She meets each person where they are and treats them as the expert on their own life. Patricia emphasizes practical steps and strengths people already have. She aims to make the first steps easier and acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage.
In sessions she pays attention to how relationships shape feelings and behaviors. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns people repeat with close others. She also draws on client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on what matters to the client at the moment.
Patricia integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thoughts that get in the way and to practice different ways of responding. She may also use elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused approaches when emotion regulation and connection are central concerns. These methods are used to help people cope with life changes, manage stress, and repair strained relationships.
Patricia works with people across many life stages and brings particular attention to issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and communication problems. She offers services in English and Spanish and works from a strengths-based perspective to help clients move toward their goals.
She meets each person where they are and treats them as the expert on their own life. Patricia emphasizes practical steps and strengths people already have. She aims to make the first steps easier and acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage.
In sessions she pays attention to how relationships shape feelings and behaviors. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns people repeat with close others. She also draws on client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on what matters to the client at the moment.
Patricia integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thoughts that get in the way and to practice different ways of responding. She may also use elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused approaches when emotion regulation and connection are central concerns. These methods are used to help people cope with life changes, manage stress, and repair strained relationships.
Patricia works with people across many life stages and brings particular attention to issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and communication problems. She offers services in English and Spanish and works from a strengths-based perspective to help clients move toward their goals.
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