Porshea Pendleton
Compassionate, practical help for relationships and mood
LMFT Oregon
- Experience
- 24 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Grief
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Languages
- English
About Porshea
Porshea Pendleton, LMFT, brings 24 years of clinical experience to her practice in Oregon. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports those working through eating issues, anger, bipolar-related challenges, and clients seeking coaching for life transitions. Porshea uses straightforward conversation and practical techniques to help clients make change.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Gottman Method to guide work on thoughts, behaviors, and relationship patterns. Sessions are shaped around each person's goals and paced to what feels manageable.
Many people come for help with attachment wounds, abandonment, adoption and foster care experiences, or blended family stress. She also addresses body image, codependency, communication problems, and recovery from domestic violence or separation.
The focus is on clear steps clients can try between sessions. Porshea can integrate a faith perspective when a client wants that support.
She meets people where they are and adapts interventions to their values and beliefs. The aim is to build skills that make day-to-day life feel more stable and connected.
Therapy sessions may include review of patterns, skill practice, and planning small experiments to test new ways of relating. Progress is tracked by what a client notices in their mood, relationships, and daily routines.
People who prefer direct, compassionate guidance tend to find this approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Gottman-informed work focuses on observable relationship patterns and communication habits. It helps people learn specific skills for managing conflict, increasing emotional connection, and improving day-to-day interactions in relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan if something isn’t a good match. Clients and therapist decide together what to prioritize and how fast to move.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. This variety helps people fit therapy into busy days and different schedules.
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Experience
24+ years
Licensed in
Oregon
Languages
English