About Paula
Paula Lawrence is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 16 years of experience. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and supports those working through addictions, anger, and intimacy-related concerns. She aims to make the first step into therapy less daunting and affirms the effort it takes to begin.
Paula creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear communication and practical steps that can be used between meetings. She listens for patterns that increase distress and helps clients try different ways of responding. Her work also covers life transitions and the kinds of challenges that come with midlife shifts, money worries, and questions about life purpose.
She pays attention to attachment and communication patterns that affect relationships and everyday functioning. Paula can help people notice and change habits that feed anxiety or compulsive behavior. Paula draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape treatments that fit each person.
She talks through options and adjusts plans as progress and goals become clearer. People meet to set realistic goals and to practice skills they can use outside of sessions. Therapy with Paula can include short-term problem solving and longer work aimed at deeper change.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to match different needs and schedules. Appointments are scheduled through a matching and booking process tailored to each client.
How Paula Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Paula uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical change. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and testing different responses in everyday life. This helps with anxiety, obsessive worries, and mood-related symptoms by teaching skills people can practice between sessions.Another approach centers on improving how people relate and communicate. It looks at attachment and interaction patterns that keep conflict or distance in place and offers small behavioral experiments to change those patterns. This can help with intimacy concerns, anger, and relationship stress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust the plan as progress is observed. The aim is to find strategies that feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or on-the-go reflection. These formats let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while keeping a steady course toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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