About Paul
Paul Jaffe is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and relationship struggles. He keeps things straightforward in sessions and focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Paul works from California and offers therapy in English for people across different regions, including international clients.
Paul centers his work on the person in front of him. He encourages clients to identify their strengths and take responsibility for change.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to be calm and direct so people can make sense of what they are feeling and decide what to try next. He uses mindfulness practices and draws on a spiritual perspective when clients are open to that approach. He also applies cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
Somatic awareness tools are added when bodily sensations help show where stress is held. Paul often helps people who struggle with shame, self-blame, and negative self-talk. He supports clients in finding a kinder, more realistic view of themselves.
That can free people to make safer choices and repair strained relationships. Sessions aim to be a calm place to talk and plan. Paul emphasizes honesty and accountability as part of growth.
He encourages people to acknowledge the step they have already taken by reaching out and to keep moving toward the life they want.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client’s own goals and experience. The therapist listens with empathy and follows what the person brings to each session, helping them find their own solutions and build on strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. Sessions use practical exercises and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns in relationships.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to help people stay grounded in the present. These techniques can reduce stress reactions and support coping with grief and addiction cravings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less data and can fit into a busy day, live chat works for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English