About Paula
Paula Soria is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Washington with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and issues around parenting and self-esteem. Paula speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations straightforward and respectful.
Paula listens carefully to each person's story and adapts her approach to fit their needs. She works with common concerns like panic attacks, mood shifts, and trouble with eating or body image.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing immigration-related stress, caregiver strain, and multicultural challenges. In sessions she keeps the work practical. Paula helps clients break problems into manageable steps, practice coping skills, and build small habits that improve day-to-day life.
She pays attention to family of origin issues, communication problems, and patterns such as codependency or dependent personality traits. People who want a calm, steady partner through change will find her approach clear and patient. Paula treats grief and loss with sensitivity and helps people rebuild when motivation or confidence is low.
Her style blends empathy with concrete tools for coping. Over two decades of practice have given her experience with aging and geriatric concerns as well as caregiver burnout. She will tailor conversations and planning to each person's situation and preferences, aiming for realistic steps that fit into everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Paula uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and small daily habits to reduce anxiety and manage panic attacks; it teaches step-by-step practices clients can use between sessions. Another approach centers on working through grief and loss by creating space to process emotions while developing routines that restore daily functioning and meaning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. She aims to explain options plainly and involve clients in deciding next steps.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people keep face-to-face connection when that helps, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or being on camera feels difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for short check-ins, journaling-style exchanges, or work between scheduled sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Immigration issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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