Porshea Pendleton, LMFT

Porshea Pendleton, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Oregon with 24 years of professional experience. She draws on years of mental health work to help people facing depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and other life stresses. Porshea offers a faith-informed option for clients who want to include Christian beliefs in therapy.

Her sessions focus on practical conversation and clear goals. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thought and behavior patterns that keep problems alive. She also uses the Gottman Method for relationship work and tailors each plan to what a person or couple needs right now.

Porshea aims to treat people with respect and sensitivity. She helps clients chart small, realistic steps toward change. She can support people dealing with anger, eating concerns, bipolar symptoms, and intimacy-related issues.

Her broader focus includes life events and relational patterns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment, blended family concerns, and aging and geriatric issues. She also addresses body image, cancer-related stress, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence or separation.

Communication skills and commitment questions are common topics in sessions. She combines solution-focused ideas and Gestalt interventions along with CBT and Gottman ideas to shape a plan that fits each person. The result is pragmatic work aimed at daily life changes.

Taking the first step can feel difficult. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions

Porshea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT often focuses on small experiments and practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. The Gottman Method is used for relationship work and centers on communication skills, conflict management, and rebuilding connection between partners.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they test what helps and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays relevant to daily life.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and keep momentum between appointments. Because session formats are not specified here, confirm current session options before booking. Many people appreciate being able to schedule appointments around work, caregiving, or medical needs, and the therapist can help decide the best pacing and focus for web-based work.