Porshea Pendleton, LMFT

Porshea Pendleton, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Oregon with 24 years of experience in mental health care. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, eating concerns, bipolar challenges, and anger. She also offers coaching and supports people dealing with attachment, abandonment, blended family stress, body image, and domestic violence impacts.

Her approach blends practical, goal-focused methods. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also works with the Gottman Method for relationship concerns, applying exercises and discussion techniques aimed at clearer communication and rebuilding connection.

Pendleton can include faith perspectives when clients request that component. She incorporates straightforward tools and homework that people can use between meetings. Sessions aim to identify small, concrete steps that reduce reactivity and ease daily functioning.

She has long experience across outpatient settings and community work. That background informs her focus on real-world problems like work stress, recurring arguments, grief that won’t ease, and managing strong emotions such as anger. Her work often combines talk, skill practice, and short assignments to test what helps.

People who prefer direct feedback and structured strategies may find her style a fit. Those who want to explore faith as part of therapy can say so when they begin. To start, prospective clients follow the site’s matching process and schedule an initial session.

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