About Pauline
Pauline Arquero-Canlas is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York. She has four years of clinical experience and speaks English and Tagalog. Pauline aims to make starting therapy straightforward for people who feel overwhelmed by changes or stress.
She focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem. She also helps people facing relationship tensions, parenting strain, career stress, and difficult life transitions. Her additional interests include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, chronic illness and pain, panic attacks, and trauma-related difficulties.
How Pauline works
Pauline uses practical, person-focused ways of working. She draws on client-centered techniques to base sessions on what matters most to the person. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teach tools that change how someone copes day to day.
Sessions can include mindful practices to calm the body and reduce reactivity. Emotionally-focused methods guide conversations about sensitive relationship feelings. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding direction or making meaningful changes.
Pauline aims to listen first and set clear, achievable steps together. She tailors the pace and strategies to each person's needs. To begin, people select the Start Therapy button, fill a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Pauline lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Pauline works with
The areas below are the ones Pauline selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English, Tagalog |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches and Online Options for Emotional Change
Pauline uses client-centered work to place the person's concerns at the heart of each session, listening closely and shaping the pacing to what feels most helpful. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to notice and adjust unhelpful thoughts and to teach practical coping tools that reduce anxiety and panic over time.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Pauline will talk through goals, preferred ways of working, and which techniques feel most useful. She collaborates with each person to try methods and adjust them based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good shorter option or use less bandwidth, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These formats aim to increase flexibility and help people get consistent, practical support regardless of location.
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