About Paige
Paige Achten offers focused support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, grief, trauma, anxiety, or major life changes. She speaks plainly and makes space for each person's pace. Paige is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - based in Texas with eight years of experience.
She aims to build a calm, practical space where clients set the goals. Sessions look at both thoughts and daily habits. Paige uses techniques that draw on acceptance, mindfulness, and emotion work to help people manage symptoms and make meaningful changes.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in healthcare with older adults and caregivers, which shaped her understanding of aging and chronic illness. She has also worked with people affected by trauma, depression, grief, and relationship strain. That experience informs how she supports people through complicated life transitions.
In early sessions Paige focuses on learning what matters most to the client and choosing approaches that fit those goals. She balances being steady and direct with a warm, approachable manner, and she often brings lightness into serious work when it helps. Practical concerns like sleep, parenting stress, caregiver burnout, chronic pain, or body image are all part of her scope.
She also addresses issues related to LGBTQ concerns, anger, self-esteem, and managing bipolar symptoms. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions often include mindfulness exercises and practical homework to try between meetings, which can help with anxiety, stress, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems going. In remote sessions the therapist and client work on concrete skills and short exercises that can be practiced during daily life. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional impact; online EMDR may involve guided bilateral stimulation and careful pacing to ensure comfort during the work. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how each method might help. Together they decide which strategies to try and can adjust the plan as progress is made. Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and emotion-focused work when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing instead of talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on meaningful changes.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English