Patricia Temple

Patricia Temple is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with four decades of clinical experience. She focuses on relationships, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, and issues around intimacy. Patricia works in English and Spanish and aims to meet people where they are in life. Her style is collaborative and direct. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and builds on existing strengths. Sessions often explore how patterns in relationships and family roles affect day-to-day stress and choices. Patricia uses several approaches to help clients make practical changes. She draws on mindfulness practices to slow down and notice patterns. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds influence current relationships. Cognitive behavioral techniques and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are used when helpful to change unhelpful thoughts and ease emotional overwhelm. Patricia tailors these tools to fit each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. People come to her for a wide range of concerns including depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness challenges, communication and commitment problems, and more. She encourages small, manageable steps and offers coaching-style support when goals are practical or skills-based. To begin, prospective clients use the site’s Start Therapy process and complete a short matching questionnaire. Patricia then works with each person to schedule sessions according to her availability.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

Patricia integrates mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and bodily sensations and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness work can help with stress, anxiety, and emotional ups and downs by encouraging simple attention and awareness habits.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach looks at how safety, trust, and closeness show up now and guides practical steps to change how people connect with others.

Client-centered principles guide the overall process by keeping the client's goals central and pacing work according to each person's needs. Patricia collaborates with clients to choose which tools to use, whether that means skills work, coaching, or deeper relational exploration.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Patricia will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try approaches that fit. Decisions about methods are made jointly and can change as progress is made.

Session format options are not specified in the biography, so confirm current session methods before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time. When specific formats are needed, check with the therapist during the matching and scheduling process to confirm what she currently offers.