About Paige
Paige Achten is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, and depression. She works with adults who are trying to regain balance after big life changes or prolonged caregiving roles. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs.
Paige draws on straightforward techniques to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. She combines cognitive behavioral strategies with mindfulness and acceptance practices to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses.
Background and approach
EMDR is also part of her toolkit for clients processing trauma. Her background includes extensive work in healthcare settings with older adults and caregivers, so she understands the strain that illness and long-term care can bring. That experience informs her practical focus and attention to both mental and physical stressors.
She also supports people facing relationship tension, parenting challenges, sleep problems, and identity-related stress within the LGBT community. Therapy starts with a first session dedicated to getting to know goals and what feels realistic. Paige aims to be calm and approachable, and she uses humor when it helps people relax.
She emphasizes strengths and small steps, helping clients set clear, achievable goals. Over time she helps people track progress, try new coping tools, and adjust the plan as needed. Her style is warm and respectful, and she centers each session on what the client wants to work on next.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to break unhelpful cycles such as worry and insomnia. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that can help reduce the hold of distressing memories when trauma processing is needed.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques to see what fits, and adjust the plan together. Clients help guide the pace and choice of methods so work feels manageable and relevant to their life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when discussion and visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing caregiving, work, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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