About Elaine
Elaine Pritchard is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, low self-esteem, and depression. She supports those coping with grief, relationship and intimacy questions, parenting strain, and major life changes. Elaine also works with concerns like eating and sleeping problems, career stress, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to adoption or blended families.
She brings ten years of experience and a calm, down-to-earth manner to sessions.
How Elaine works
Her MA in Counseling Psychology and BA in Psychology inform a practical style. Elaine aims to listen closely, ask clear questions, and use warmth and gentle humor to ease hard conversations. Her approach blends attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques.
Sessions tend to focus on understanding patterns, naming feelings, and practicing small changes that make daily life easier. She also draws on emotion-focused and existential perspectives when people need help with meaning, loss, or identity. Elaine works from the belief that therapy is a partnership.
She helps people map goals, try new ways of relating, and build coping skills that fit their life. Her manner is flexible and creative, often offering different ways to look at a problem when old solutions no longer work. She practices in California as an LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist - and speaks English.
People considering work with her start by using the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire before scheduling according to therapist availability.
Elaine lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Elaine works with
The areas below are the ones Elaine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how early relationships shape current bonds. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and build more reliable ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on careful listening and the person’s own goals, helping people feel heard and explore what they truly want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they will try approaches that fit the person’s needs and adjust strategies as progress is made.
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. It also gives therapists ways to share worksheets, practice skills between sessions, and follow changes over time without needing an in-person visit.
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