About Paula
Paula Voigt is a licensed counselor who brings seven years of clinical experience to her work in Illinois. She holds an IL LCPC and an IN LMHC and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and career concerns. She also supports those coping with trauma, post-traumatic stress, and grief related to loss.
Paula has particular experience supporting people through infertility and reproductive loss. She describes strong emotional responses such as anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress that can follow miscarriage or fertility struggles.
Background and approach
She offers a calm, respectful presence and practical coping tools to help people process those feelings. Her approach is collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs. Sessions aim to identify immediate coping strategies and long-term ways to rebuild routines and meaning.
Paula listens for what is most distressing and works with clients to build steps they can try between sessions. She also helps with communication problems and issues that often affect men and women differently. Career-related stress and decisions are part of her practice as well, with attention to how work life and personal life interact.
Paula emphasizes sensitivity and respect in every session. She encourages people to take small next steps and offers steady support while they work toward clearer goals and better day-to-day functioning.
Practical approaches and online care that fit your life
Paula uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in clear, practical ways. One common focus is on stress and anxiety reduction through skills-building - identifying triggers, learning breathing and grounding strategies, and practicing small behavioral changes to reduce everyday overwhelm. These skills help when worry or tension make daily tasks harder.She also works with trauma-related concerns, including post-traumatic stress, by helping people organize and manage distressing memories and reactions. That work often combines emotion regulation and paced exposure to difficult material so clients can regain a sense of control and move forward. For grief and reproductive loss she offers supportive therapy that validates strong emotions, helps process loss, and teaches coping tools for the hard days ahead.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Paula collaborates with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients are invited to give feedback and try different strategies until something fits.
Online therapy formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing or want flexible, on-the-go support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and access consistent care across different settings.
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Washington, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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