About Paul
Paul Hugens is a Florida licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people regain balance when life feels overwhelming. He listens carefully and works with clients to set clear, realistic goals. He values each person's strengths and helps them use those strengths to move forward.
With four decades of experience, Paul draws on a long career supporting people through relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and stress.
How Paul works
He also helps people struggling with addictions, ADHD, and career transitions. His practice includes coaching for life direction and coping with major life changes. Paul offers practical, down-to-earth guidance rather than vague theory.
Sessions are a chance to talk through problems, build better communication, and practice skills that fit daily life. He encourages small steps that add up to meaningful change. He also addresses a broad range of focused issues such as attachment challenges, codependency, infidelity, and feelings of isolation or shame.
Additional work includes supporting those facing cancer, hospice and end-of-life concerns, aging and geriatric issues, and the needs of first responders. People who prefer candid, experienced support may find his approach helpful. He treats clients as partners in the process and helps them identify practical strategies for improved relationships, mood, and purpose.
Sessions are offered in English and available to international clients.
What Paul works with
The areas below are the ones Paul selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches and Online Care That Fit Your Life
Paul uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping skills. One common approach emphasizes building concrete skills for managing anxiety, stress, and impulsivity through step-by-step practice and behavior changes that can be used day to day. Another approach centers on improving relationships and intimacy by exploring patterns of communication and attachment and practicing new ways of relating that reduce conflict and increase connection.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients play an active role in choosing which techniques feel useful and workable for their life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation across distances, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing support without scheduling a full session. These options help people maintain continuity of care and fit therapy into busy schedules.
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