About Paula
Paula Lawrence is an Illinois-licensed clinician (LCPC) with 16 years of practice supporting people through a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. She draws on long experience helping clients manage stress and anxiety, address addictions, navigate intimacy-related concerns, and work through anger and major life transitions.
Background and approach
Paula also attends to related issues such as attachment patterns, communication difficulties, control and dependent personality concerns, and mood or obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Her work emphasizes creating an open, nonjudgmental environment where clients can explore difficult thoughts and feelings.
Paula aims to collaborate with each person to identify practical steps and insights that fit their situation and goals. She recognizes that beginning therapy can be a brave choice and seeks to make that first step feel supported and manageable for those who reach out in Illinois.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Access
Paula uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work on common concerns. One approach focuses on identifying and modifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood; this method helps people gain practical skills for managing stress, intrusive worries, and compulsive patterns. Another approach emphasizes building healthier attachment and communication patterns by exploring relational habits and practicing new ways of relating, which can be useful for intimacy issues, anger, and problems with trust or control.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula works with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences and adapts techniques over time so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single model in every case.
Online therapy with Paula is available through multiple formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - providing flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and access support from home or another convenient location while working through stress, life changes, or behavioral concerns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English