About Paul
Paul Farley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. He speaks plainly and offers steady guidance for worries like panic, social anxiety, grief, and problems with self-esteem. He uses practical talk and focused exercises to reduce symptoms and build coping skills.
Sessions aim to clarify what matters to the client and create small, manageable steps toward change. Paul balances warmth with clear direction so people leave with tools they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Paul draws from several approaches to tailor care to each person. He may use cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment strategies to identify values, or client-centered work to follow the client’s pace. For trauma-related concerns he incorporates methods designed to process distress and ease symptoms over time.
Over eight years of practice, Paul has supported people through major life changes, identity questions, and complicated relationships. He helps clients with ADHD-related struggles, intimacy issues, and career uncertainty by breaking problems into actionable steps. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through a mix of video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for them.
How chosen approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or fear shows up. It focuses on action and building a life that aligns with personal goals rather than only removing symptoms.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. In online sessions this often means identifying patterns that keep problems going and practicing new skills between meetings, like testing unhelpful thoughts or trying different behaviors in real situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques. Together they will pick or combine methods that fit the person's needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people use visual cues and a full conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging allows brief ongoing contact between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on goals when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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