About Paula
Paula Odom is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She brings six years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. Her style is warm and interactive, with a focus on listening first and tailoring support to each person's needs.
Paula uses client-centered methods to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space. She blends cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people change thinking patterns and build practical skills.
How Paula works
Sessions are focused and goal-directed while staying responsive to the person's pace. She has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, grief, intimate relationship challenges, and addiction. Paula also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and problems rooted in prejudice or multicultural stressors.
Communication problems and parenting strain are common topics she helps people untangle. Paula pays attention to how stress affects daily functioning and coping. She uses DBT-informed skills when emotions feel overwhelming and motivational techniques when people want help finding direction.
Her background helps her guide clients toward clearer choices and steadier routines. People who meet with Paula can expect practical strategies alongside empathetic listening. She encourages small, manageable steps and adapts the plan as progress unfolds.
Her aim is to help people feel more able to handle life changes and rebuild confidence.
Paula lists 7 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Paula combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral and DBT-informed techniques that work well in remote sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person, helping them feel understood and guiding the conversation where it needs to go. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behavior, using structured exercises and homework to reduce anxiety or depression. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) contributes practical skills for managing intense emotions, such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Paula will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, and then suggest a plan to try. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps most, so the work can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins or real-time problem solving, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and use formats that match their needs.
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