About Paula
Paula Odom is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York. She brings a practical, respectful style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Paula practices in English and has six years listed experience as an LCSW.
Paula uses straightforward, person-focused approaches in conversation. She listens first, then helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small changes. She also uses skills that focus on emotion regulation and moment-to-moment awareness.
Background and approach
She works with a wide range of concerns including relationships, parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and career issues. Paula also addresses identity-related stress such as LGBT concerns, multicultural issues, prejudice, and discrimination. Her background includes attention to adoption and foster care, attachment and blended family challenges, and caregiver strain.
In sessions Paula often combines goal-focused steps with moments of reflection. That can mean practicing coping skills, rehearsing new ways to communicate, or setting short-term goals to manage anger, mood, or stress. She uses motivational ideas when people are deciding on change.
People can expect a warm, interactive tone that aims to be respectful and sensitive. Paula can guide conversations about boundaries, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Practical tools and small experiments are used alongside conversation to make change feel manageable.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Paula often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, empathy, and building a collaborative relationship so people feel heard and understood. This approach is useful when someone needs support naming feelings or deciding next steps in their life.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT offers concrete skills for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable parts and practicing new responses.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are part of her toolkit as well, teaching emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better ways to manage intense feelings. These skills help with anger, relationship strain, and moments when strong emotions feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, written reflection, or moments when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English