About Paula
Paula Ciocirlau is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She speaks English and Romanian and brings eight years of experience working with a wide range of concerns. She aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so people can start feeling better in everyday life.
Paula uses a collaborative style. She encourages clients to set clear goals and explores what feels most useful for them. Sessions tend to be conversational and grounded in the client’s real-world challenges rather than abstract theory.
Background and approach
Her background includes study and clinical work that began in Vienna in 2016. That international experience shaped how she understands different cultural perspectives and how life changes affect people. She draws on that experience when helping people navigate relationship issues, parenting pressures, career stress and grief.
Paula works with a broad range of concerns, including depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, body image and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, chronic illness, adoption and attachment questions. Practical coping strategies and clearer patterns of thinking are common aims in her work.
In the room she blends client-centred listening with solution-focused tools and parts-based work. This mix helps people build small changes that add up over time. People who prefer direct, goal-oriented conversations together with space to explore deeper feelings often find this approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following your pace. It helps when people need space to make sense of feelings and regain confidence in their decisions.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small practical steps and what you want to change. It is useful for people who prefer clear goals and quicker, action-oriented progress.
Internal Family Systems looks at parts of the self and how they interact. This approach can help when people feel pulled in different directions by inner voices, old wound patterns or uncomfortable emotions.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. Paula works with clients to choose or blend methods that match their goals, needs and preferences. The plan can shift as progress is made and new priorities appear.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, reflection between sessions or for those who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on steady, useful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
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
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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