About Paul
Paul Weaver is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who helps people facing relationship and emotional struggles. He sees individuals and couples dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and problems with intimacy. Paul writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters to each person.
He focuses on restoring connection when relationships feel strained. Sessions often center on understanding attachment patterns and improving communication. Paul uses emotion-focused work to help people notice feelings, name them, and respond differently in close relationships.
Background and approach
Paul has nine years of clinical experience and has worked in independent practice settings. He has supported people through life transitions, coping with stress, addiction concerns, parenting strains, and issues tied to sexuality and identity. He also addresses practical themes like sleep, eating, career stress, and feelings of emptiness.
In sessions he follows a client-centered stance. He aims to create a calm space where concerns are heard without judgment. From there he and the client choose steps that fit day-to-day life, such as skills for managing anxiety or new ways to bring up difficult topics.
Paul accepts clients from Florida and internationally and speaks English. He offers several remote formats and works collaboratively to find an approach that matches a person's goals and circumstances.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Paul uses attachment-based work to help people notice patterns that affect trust and closeness in relationships. This approach looks at how early bonds and current interactions shape responses to conflict and closeness, which can be useful for intimacy, abandonment, and family-of-origin issues.He also draws on emotion-focused therapy to help people identify, express, and work with strong feelings. That method helps when emotions get in the way of clear communication or when people feel stuck in repetitive cycles with partners. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used in sessions to map unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors that reduce anxiety and depressive patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than using a single fixed plan. Clients and therapist check in regularly and adjust focus as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow full conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- 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
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English
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