Porshea Pendleton, LMFT

Porshea Pendleton, LMFT, brings 24 years of experience as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Oregon. She offers calm, straightforward support for people facing depression, anxiety, grief, relationship strains, and mood concerns. Her approach is faith-informed when a client requests spiritual integration, and she adapts conversations to each person’s beliefs and needs.

She uses practical tools drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also incorporates the Gottman Method for couples work when relationship goals are part of treatment. Sessions focus on clear goals, step-by-step techniques, and honest conversation rather than academic language.

Porshea emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She helps clients who are navigating loss, intimacy-related struggles, eating and body image concerns, anger, bipolar conditions, and issues connected to abandonment or adoption. She also addresses challenges tied to aging, cancer, codependency, dissociation, and recovery from domestic violence or separation.

Her style mixes coaching with therapy, offering direct feedback and practical strategies people can use between sessions. Treatment plans are individualized so the work stays relevant to daily life. Clients who want faith integrated into therapy can bring those values into the process.

To begin, people follow the site’s Start Therapy flow and complete a short matching questionnaire. From there scheduling is arranged based on the therapist’s availability and the program’s scheduling process.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Porshea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice the thoughts and everyday habits that influence mood and behavior. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing small, practical changes that reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.

She also draws on the Gottman Method when couples bring relationship concerns. That approach focuses on improving communication, reducing conflict cycles, and rebuilding connection through specific conversation skills and shared goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which methods fit the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That means adjusting techniques over time and combining tools from different models when that helps.

Confirm the available session formats before you book, since the profile does not list specific online or in-person options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Talk with the therapist about what will work best for scheduling and for the kinds of exercises you want to try.