About Paul
Paul Weaver is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people work through relationship and emotional struggles. He focuses on restoring connection and reducing distress so clients can move forward. Paul uses straightforward language and aims to make sessions feel clear and manageable.
He offers help with relationship and intimacy concerns, family conflict, grief, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, stress, and issues around addiction. He also supports people with body image, codependency, commitment and communication problems, blended family matters, and fatherhood issues.
How Paul works
He works with concerns related to LGBT identity, eating and sleeping challenges, and compassion fatigue. Paul draws on attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused methods to look at how patterns of interaction shape feelings and safety. He also uses client-centered principles to center each person's experience and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
This mix helps people identify what changes they want and try practical steps toward them. He has practiced for nine years and holds the LMFT credential, licensed in Florida and Oregon. Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients.
Paul has spent significant time in independent practice helping people navigate life transitions and relational pain. People who come to him can expect a collaborative pace. He listens for patterns in relationships and mood, helps name feelings, and works with each person to decide next steps.
The work is aimed at creating clearer communication, steadier emotion, and more reliable connection.
Paul lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approach-driven care available online
Paul uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape how people connect and respond to stress; this helps with intimacy, abandonment worries, and family patterns. He also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy, which focuses on naming emotions and shifting interaction patterns to build safety and closeness in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety, depression, or avoidance going.Choosing a method usually happens together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try a few techniques, and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative process makes it easier to find the right mix for your situation and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets you read facial cues and work in real time, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit shorter windows, live chat can be convenient for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and varied comfort levels.
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