About Trishka
Trishka Lampkin is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 16 years of clinical experience. She frames sessions around practical steps and steady support. Trishka aims to create a respectful, affirming place where people can talk about hard things and learn new ways to cope.
She works with people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and addictions. She also addresses relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and life transitions. ADHD is one of the areas listed among her clinical focuses.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and person-centered. She listens for each person’s values and strengths, then helps set clear, achievable goals. Sessions combine real-world tools with attention to how past experiences shape current behavior.
Trishka uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. She draws on cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thoughts, acceptance-based methods to handle difficult feelings, and attachment-focused work to improve close relationships. She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and coping skills are needed.
Clients can expect a practical, steady process that focuses on small changes that add up. Trishka describes therapy as a team effort where the person’s preferences guide the plan. Her work centers on helping people build routines and skills that fit their daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Trishka often combines cognitive behavioral methods with acceptance-based work to help people change unhelpful thinking patterns and learn new ways to respond to difficult feelings. CBT offers practical exercises and thought work for issues like anxiety and depression, while Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take meaningful action despite uncomfortable emotions.She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current connection patterns. This work focuses on improving how people relate, communicate needs, and repair ruptures in close relationships. These approaches are chosen to match the concern and the person, and they can be blended over time to meet evolving goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means checking in, adjusting techniques, and prioritizing what a person notices is helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit appointments into busy schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messages work well for quick check-ins or when shorter exchanges are preferred. These options add flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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