Pascale Dellefield

Pascale Dellefield is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with over two decades of professional experience. She brings a warm, heart-centered style and focuses on helping people reconnect with what matters most when life feels off balance.

She uses mindfulness and practical skill building to support people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. Pascale also works with concerns such as bipolar disorder, addictions, eating issues, and intimacy-related problems. Her practice includes attention to attachment, abandonment, codependency, and family of origin issues.

Pascale blends Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive and behavioral tools to create clear, usable steps. She often includes homework like reading and skill practice between sessions to help people apply new habits in daily life. Mindfulness and meditation are regular parts of her approach for grounding and emotion regulation.

Her background includes work with people who have experienced trauma, compassion fatigue, and major life transitions. She notes experience across many settings and populations and aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s needs and goals.

Pascale writes about emotional resilience in her book Being With Heart: How to Thrive in Life With A Tender Heart. She speaks several languages but conducts therapy in English. She invites people to take the first step toward a more fulfilling life and offers support through that process.

How Pascale's Approaches Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship. It helps when someone needs a calm place to talk and to feel understood before making changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behavior patterns and teaches practical exercises to change them; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication skills and can be useful for strong emotions and relationship struggles.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose or blend approaches and adjust over time based on what is helping.

Confirm current session options before booking as formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten commute time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or reduce the need to be on camera. Many people find this flexibility helps them stick with practice assignments and bring changes into daily life.