About Paulina
Paulina Ulano is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and major life changes. She brings 22 years of experience offering psychotherapy in New York. Her approach aims to make hard conversations clearer and more manageable.
She works in a warm, supportive manner. Sessions are often exploratory and inquisitive, with time to notice patterns that cause distress. Paulina listens for what matters most and helps people name problems in simple terms.
Background and approach
Her practice combines a few different methods to suit the person in front of her. That mix can include looking at past experiences that shape current feelings, noticing unhelpful thoughts, and focusing on how trauma affects daily life. Techniques are used to help reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Paulina also addresses practical life concerns. This includes caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, relationship communication, immigration-related issues, and the loneliness that can come with major transitions. She pays attention to cultural context and how it affects coping.
People who choose her can expect straightforward conversation and steady support. Sessions aim to build clearer coping strategies and small, achievable steps for change. Her long experience informs a flexible style that adjusts to each person’s needs.
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Paulina commonly blends trauma-informed work with person-centered and cognitive behavioral methods. Trauma-informed work focuses on how past events affect current reactions and helps people build safety and stability in their responses. Person-centered work centers on listening closely and reflecting what a person says so they can find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood going and teach practical skills to change them.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Paulina collaborates with each person to identify what feels most useful, based on their goals and day-to-day needs, and adjusts methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep face-to-face conversation without traveling. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins and a way to process between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work on anxiety, grief, trauma, or other concerns from varied routines and locations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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