- Client-centered approach
- Skill-building focus
- Family and parenting
About Paula
Paula Odom is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who uses a warm, interactive counseling style. She focuses on practical steps clients can use to manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and parenting challenges. Paula emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions.
With six years of documented experience, Paula blends client-centered listening with cognitive and skills-based strategies. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice different responses, and try small behavior changes that can make daily life easier. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, shaped to each person's needs.
Paula also works with issues tied to trauma, addiction, grief, and identity-related concerns. She supports people dealing with caregiver stress, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care matters, and communication problems. Multicultural concerns, prejudice, and discrimination are part of her stated focus areas.
Her methods include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques, Mindfulness practice, Motivational Interviewing, and a client-centered approach. Those tools are used to build coping skills, improve emotional regulation, and set achievable goals. Expect practical skills, reflection, and partnership rather than lectures.
People who seek coaching around career choices, compassion fatigue, or intimacy-related concerns will find those topics listed among her focuses. Paula encourages people to take small, manageable steps and offers steady support as they try new ways of coping and communicating.
How Paula's approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and understood. In practice this means the therapist follows the client's lead, asks questions, and helps people clarify what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills for shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs and goals, and she will adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients and therapist set priorities together and review what is or isn’t working.
Confirm the available session options before booking, since formats were not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a busy day, or avoiding the need to be on camera. It can also help people keep therapy consistent around work and family commitments. Ask about the specific session types offered when you start the matching process.
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Experience
6+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Paula commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting and family-related concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and work or career worries.
What is Paula's therapeutic style?
Her approach is warm and interactive, combining client-centered listening with cognitive and skills-based techniques to help clients set and meet personal goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Paula has six years of documented experience as a clinician and applies that background to helping people manage daily stressors and life changes.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an LCSW credential and practices in New York.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English and the profile notes that international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify format details; please confirm current session options with the service before booking.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Paula?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.