About Paula
Paula D’Amore greets people with warmth and a practical focus on everyday problems. She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, who aims to make therapy feel clear and useful. Paula keeps her caseload small so she can give focused attention to each person she talks with.
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports those facing grief, parenting strains, caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, and life changes.
Background and approach
Career concerns, anger, relationship and communication issues are also among her areas of focus. In sessions Paula uses common-sense tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside mindfulness and motivational interviewing. She encourages people to notice their patterns, test what helps, and keep what works.
The work tends to be interactive and practical rather than abstract. Paula draws on five years of experience and holds licenses in Tennessee and Florida, listed as TN LCSW 8354 and FL LCSW SW11399. She offers care in English and works with people by appointment in Tennessee when matched through the platform.
Her style is direct, compassionate, and tuned to real life. She invites people to be curious about themselves, to practice small changes, and to treat themselves with the same care they would offer others. Short, steady steps are the goal, not overnight perfection.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Paula draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and notice steady habits. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, which makes practical steps easier to try. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to manage stress and stay present when emotions run high.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Paula collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and daily life. She encourages testing techniques and keeping what helps in a way that fits the client's routine.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video helps mirror an in-person conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit during a break, live chat can work for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to maintain steady progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Tennessee
- Languages
- English