Porshea Pendleton, LMFT

Porshea Pendleton is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Oregon with 24 years of professional experience. She brings a calm, respectful presence and offers practical help for people facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, eating concerns, anger, bipolar challenges, and stress.

Porshea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and she also applies elements of the Gottman Method for relationship work. She adapts conversations and goals to each person's situation. Sessions are shaped around what a client wants to change and what feels doable in everyday life.

She can support people dealing with issues tied to abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care, blended family questions, body image, cancer-related stress, codependency, commitment worries, and communication problems. She also addresses dissociation, dependent personality patterns, coping after natural or human-caused disasters, and separation or domestic violence concerns.

Porshea is comfortable integrating faith when a client wants a Christian perspective as part of therapy. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, focusing on steps people can try between sessions to notice progress.

Work with her may include talk-based problem solving, skill practice, and short-term coaching strategies. Her aim is to help people reduce distress and build clearer patterns for thinking, relating, and coping.

How Porshea applies CBT and Gottman work online

Porshea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT often involves setting concrete goals, tracking thoughts or moods, and trying small experiments between sessions to test new ways of coping.

She also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship-focused work, which centers on improving communication, managing conflict, and rebuilding trust through structured exercises and clearer ways of interacting. That approach suits people looking to repair or strengthen intimate partnerships.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Porshea discusses goals and preferences early on and adjusts methods as needed. She works collaboratively so the plan matches what a person wants and what realistically fits their life.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat and messaging work well for shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving forward.