About Paula
Paula Arizola offers help for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and adjusting to life changes. She has 14 years of experience and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC. She believes people have strengths to draw on and that reaching out is a brave first step.
Paula keeps sessions straightforward and focused. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, manageable goals. Conversations are practical and grounded in real-life problems, not jargon.
How Paula works
The aim is to build skills that fit daily routines. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods. Paula uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name values and take small steps toward them.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced ones. Paula also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered techniques to strengthen self-awareness and the ability to form healthier relationships with oneself and others. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are added when emotion regulation or distress tolerance is needed.
She has supported people dealing with abandonment and attachment concerns, adoption and foster care matters, body image and eating-related struggles, codependency and communication problems, and issues around gender and identity. Paula aims to make therapy a collaborative process that respects each person’s pace and goals.
Paula lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Paula works with
The areas below are the ones Paula selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Paula’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. Online sessions can use simple exercises and behavioral experiments between meetings to build momentum. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting, which works well in video or messaging formats where homework and thought records are shared and reviewed.Finding the best fit is part of the process. Paula will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches to try based on their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. She adjusts techniques over time and combines methods when that better serves someone's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn't wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins possible and help people keep progress between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still using ACT and CBT tools together.
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