About Paula
Paula Corano is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 15 years of clinical work. She earned a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and brings a practical, goal-focused approach to sessions. Paula speaks English and Portuguese and works with people facing a wide range of stresses and life transitions.
She begins by listening to what matters most and then helps set clear, manageable goals. Paula combines client-centered conversation with techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking.
How Paula works
She also uses attachment-focused ideas to strengthen relationships and emotional bonds. Paula has a background in parent-child work and in helping people with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. Her approach is practical: she offers empathy, feedback, and specific steps people can try between sessions.
She also supports those navigating career concerns, caregiving strain, body image issues, and ADHD-related challenges. Sessions with Paula are collaborative. She balances warmth with a focus on change, helping people notice patterns and try new ways of relating.
Cultural background and personal history are considered part of the work, and she aims to respect each person’s values and experience. People meet Paula to work through anger, communication problems, abandonment or attachment worries, or to cope with major life events. She guides clients to build skills that make daily life feel more manageable and relationships feel more connected.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Paula’s Approaches Work Online
Paula uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships and to build safer emotional connections. This approach can be useful for intimacy-related worries, communication problems, and attachment issues.She also applies client-centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following the client's priorities. That style helps people feel heard while they set goals and try new ways of managing stress, mood, or relationship concerns.
Another common tool is cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches skills to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful patterns. Sessions often include simple exercises and practical strategies to use between meetings.
Paula treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then adapt methods as needed. Together they decide which tools to try first and how to measure progress.
Online sessions offer flexibility in format and scheduling. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing helps someone reflect. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while maintaining ongoing support.
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