About Paula
Paula Rainey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Mississippi with 25 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, self-esteem, anger, and career concerns. Paula centers the conversation on each person's strengths and choices.
She invites people to take small, manageable steps toward change. Her approach combines practical techniques with attention to how relationships shape feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Attachment-based perspectives look at how early bonds and current relationships affect trust, safety, and closeness. Paula also uses elements of mindfulness to help people notice emotions without getting overwhelmed. Trauma-focused methods guide recovery after distressing events and work to reduce intense reactions over time.
Motivational interviewing supports finding personal reasons to make lasting changes. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Paula listens for what matters most and helps build steps that fit daily life.
She balances encouragement with concrete skills practice so people can see progress between sessions. People often come with panic, grief, loneliness, or complicated feelings about relationships and purpose. Paula helps them sort these problems, set clear goals, and build confidence to handle challenges.
Her style is straightforward, respectful, and focused on practical results.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past and present relationships shape how a person feels and reacts. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and build safer, more trusting connections. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, and low mood because it teaches practical tools to shift reactions and reduce distress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She balances listening with skill-building so clients can try approaches and adjust them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video can support deeper conversation and visual cues, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work days, family routines, or busy schedules while still focusing on progress and practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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