About Paula
Paula Green is a licensed counselor with 20 years of clinical experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, family conflict, and major life changes. She works with adults, teens, and children to reduce symptoms and build clearer ways to cope. Paula uses straightforward language and practical steps so families can try small changes at home.
Her background includes work in clinics and independent practice settings. She spent a decade supporting victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in a shelter setting and through work with domestic violence courts.
Background and approach
For the last eight years she has counseled in an outpatient program and in an intensive partial hospitalization program at a neurobehavioral center. Paula draws on several approaches to meet different needs. She uses client-centered work to understand each person, cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and EMDR when trauma memories need focused attention.
Mindfulness and dialectical behavior techniques are woven in to help with emotion regulation and staying present. She has also led trainings in child sexual abuse prevention and supported people navigating adoption, foster care, blended family issues, and caregiver stress. Paula pays attention to family of origin issues, communication problems, dissociation, and disorders that affect mood and behavior.
Paula holds LCPC and LPCC credentials and practices in New Mexico while seeing clients in English. She welcomes international clients and offers a mix of video, phone, chat, and text-based sessions to fit different schedules.
Approaches that translate to online care
Paula often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and collaborating on goals, which helps people feel heard and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when strong feelings interfere with daily life. These approaches help people build practical tools they can practice between sessions, and Paula works together with each person to find the best mix for their needs and goals.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, shorter or longer contact, and ways to keep working even when routines change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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