About Paul
Paul Germany is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and life changes. He works in Texas and brings two decades of experience to sessions. Paul speaks English and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people feeling overwhelmed.
He uses simple, direct talk to understand what is causing distress. Sessions often include goal-setting and specific skills to reduce worry, improve sleep, or manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
He adapts methods to each person's needs rather than relying on a single technique. Paul trained in psychology and completed a master’s degree in clinical psychology. He has worked in clinical settings including hospital-based care and community mental health.
That background means he is familiar with both short-term coaching and longer-term therapy when needed. Common topics he addresses include depression, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting strain, career stress, and issues related to identity and relationships. He also supports people facing grief, compassion fatigue, and attention difficulties such as ADHD.
Paul draws from client-centered, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, emotionally-focused, and existential approaches. He tends to favor techniques that produce clear change, like thought-behavior strategies and emotion regulation skills, and he blends approaches to match goals. People who want practical strategies, clear plans, and a respectful, nonjudgmental space often find his style helpful.
He encourages active collaboration so clients leave sessions with steps they can try between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and building understanding together. In an online session this means the therapist helps you name priorities and supports you as you choose next steps for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches clear skills for noticing thoughts and shifting behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and sleep problems. Those exercises and homework fit naturally into video, phone, or text formats. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, concentrates on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills can be practiced between sessions and reinforced through brief check-ins by messaging.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Paul will work collaboratively to identify which methods match your goals and preferences, and he will adjust techniques as progress is made. That collaborative planning helps make sessions feel intentional and useful from the start.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing skills practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or daily life while keeping a consistent treatment path.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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