About Paula
Paula Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 40 years of experience to sessions. She focuses on anxiety and stress, and helps people facing relationship tension, career challenges, grief, addiction concerns, and self-esteem struggles. Paula listens with warmth and a direct style to help people find practical next steps.
She works from a mix of client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas. That means she offers steady support while helping people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and aimed at skills people can use between meetings. Paula's long career includes roles in child welfare, criminal justice, education, the corporate sector, and military family life programs. Those settings helped her build clear communication and engagement skills.
She uses a personable approach and a bit of humor to lower tension in hard conversations. In the room she helps people break large problems into small steps. She encourages clients to notice patterns, test new behaviors, and reflect on what matters to them.
The goal is steady, realistic change rather than quick fixes. Paula holds a Master’s degree in Human Services and is licensed as an LPC in New Jersey. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
Her practice also supports people working through parenting strain, intimacy issues, burnout, and life transitions.
How Paula Uses Talk-Based and Skill-Focused Approaches Online
Paula uses client-centered methods online to provide supportive, person-focused listening. That approach focuses on understanding each person’s experience and working at their pace, which can help with anxiety, grief, and relationship worries.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try concrete behavior changes. CBT-style work is useful for stress, anxiety, low mood, and situations where testing small changes can reduce symptoms over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will talk with each person about their goals and try different ways of working until they find what fits. The therapist and client set goals together and check progress as they go.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling more flexible. Video supports face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging lets people send thoughts between sessions. These options help therapy fit into work, family, and travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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