About Paula
Paula Corano is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 15 years of clinical experience. She looks for practical ways to help people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or navigating major life changes. Paula speaks English and Portuguese and aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for real life concerns.
Her work blends listening with clear goal-setting. Paula uses ideas from attachment-based and client-centered approaches to help people understand relationship patterns and what they need from others.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts that fuel anxiety or low mood. Paula often helps people facing relationship struggles, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, anger, and career-related stress. She also supports those coping with grief, intimacy-related issues, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her practice includes attention to adoption and foster care issues, attachment problems, and blended family dynamics. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual. Paula combines empathy with practical feedback and clear steps clients can try between sessions.
She values cultural differences and works to understand each person’s background as part of the process. People who choose Paula can expect a collaborative approach where goals are named early and progress is reviewed. She offers several session formats to fit different schedules and preferences, and she encourages potential clients to begin by completing a short matching questionnaire to get started.
How Paula’s Approaches Shape Online Care
Paula blends attachment-based work with client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas to support change. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns show up now and helps people find different ways to connect. Client-centered work means sessions are guided by what matters most to the person and the therapist follows the client’s lead. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Paula collaborates with clients to identify which methods feel most useful for their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. This shared decision-making helps clients feel involved and keeps the work practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits many lives. Video calls let people read facial expressions and work through relationship issues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for ongoing support between sessions or for clients who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work, try techniques in daily life, and stay connected when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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