Pascale Dellefield, LMFT

Pascale Dellefield is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 21 years of clinical experience. She uses a warm, heart-centered approach to help people reconnect with what matters to them. Pascale emphasizes practical tools like mindfulness, reading, and skill-building homework to support change over time.

She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting challenges. Her background also includes work with attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, codependency, communication problems, and coping with life changes.

Pascale blends client-centered dialog with structured methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies and dialectical behavior techniques. She has lived and worked in multiple countries and draws on that experience when addressing multicultural and immigration-related struggles. Sessions are conducted in English.

Her practice values dignity, sensitivity, and compassion. Pascale describes her style as open minded and respectful of clients' spiritual and theological perspectives when those topics arise. She also uses mindfulness and meditation exercises in session to help people manage stress and trauma symptoms.

Pascale tailors treatment plans to each person's needs and often includes take-home exercises between sessions. To begin, she asks people to share what they want to change and then builds a practical plan together that fits their life and goals.

How her approaches guide online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and building a collaborative relationship. It helps people feel heard and shapes goals around what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with intense emotions and relationship struggles.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Pascale works with each person to test methods, adjust techniques, and decide what fits best. She combines listening with small, doable exercises so clients can see what helps between sessions.

Confirm current session options before booking since specific formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and keep check-ins shorter when needed. Many people find that doing mindfulness practices and homework between sessions works well with remote appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt pacing and materials so therapy fits daily life.