About Paula
Paula Peterson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress and helps people navigate grief, anger, life transitions, and issues with self-esteem. Paula writes simply and directly in sessions to help clients feel understood and move forward.
She approaches counseling with a client-centered outlook. That means sessions begin by listening to what matters most to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Paula also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors that reduce distress. Paula has worked in day treatment and outpatient settings and has experience supporting adults and adolescents. She draws on EMDR for trauma-related symptoms when appropriate, and she blends mindfulness and solution-focused methods to build practical skills for coping.
Her background includes work with addictions, depression, and spiritual struggles. In sessions she aims to tap into each person’s own strengths. Conversations are straightforward and paced to match the client’s needs.
Paula emphasizes simple tools for calming, small behavior changes, and clearer communication. People often come to her for help with career stress, relationship conflict, family-of-origin concerns, postpartum challenges, or end-of-life matters. She encourages anyone who feels a fit with her way of working to start by reaching out through the site's matching process.
How Paula’s approaches work in online therapy
Paula often uses Client-Centered Therapy to begin work. That approach centers on careful listening and following the client’s lead so the person feels heard and understood. It helps with a wide range of concerns, from anxiety to life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people change unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and goal-oriented, which can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and help with workplace or relationship challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to emphasize listening and exploration, structured CBT work, EMDR for trauma-related symptoms, or mindfulness and solution-focused exercises.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a workday, choose a shorter check-in by text, or use phone sessions when bandwidth is limited. The variety of formats supports flexible scheduling and access to consistent care from a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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