About Paula
Paula Fowler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Tennessee. She brings six years of clinical experience to her work and focuses on helping people manage everyday struggles and major life transitions. She offers a warm, interactive counseling style.
Sessions are practical and conversational. Paula listens first, then helps people build steps they can try between meetings. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, self-esteem, parenting concerns, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, anger, career questions, and ADHD.
How Paula works
She also addresses related issues such as caregiver strain, aging and geriatric topics, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and coping after disasters. Paula uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy. She helps people break problems into manageable pieces, set realistic goals, and notice patterns that get in the way of change.
People who prefer straightforward, goal-oriented conversations tend to do well with her approach. Paula emphasizes practical tools and small, achievable steps so people can see progress between sessions. She conducts therapy in English and practices in Tennessee.
Paula lists 3 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
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
How Paula’s Methods Work Online
Paula commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Motivational interviewing focuses on what matters to the person, helping them find their own reasons and motivation to make change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Paula treats the choice of method as a collaborative decision based on a person’s goals, concerns, and preferences. She will check in and adjust techniques as needed so the plan fits the person’s life and progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for deeper weekly sessions, phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be useful for shorter check-ins or quick coping ideas. These options let people fit therapy into their schedules and stick with small changes over time.
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