About Paula
Paula Patterson is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. She draws on 20 years of practice to offer steady, calm support during hard moments. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for busy people and worried parents.
Paula pays attention to patterns that cause repeated distress. She helps people notice obsessive or compulsive cycles and work through issues linked to sexual assault, self-harm, and personality challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with grief, addiction, bipolar mood shifts, and seasonal changes in mood. In sessions she uses clear, practical methods to build coping skills and increase day-to-day stability. People learn ways to reduce intense emotions, manage anger, and improve self-esteem.
She also guides people through intimacy concerns, jealousy, and difficulties that come with parenting or career stress. Her work draws from several therapy approaches including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused perspectives, client-centered listening, cognitive behavior techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior work. Paula sets goals with each person and adjusts methods as needed to fit their situation.
Paula offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit modern schedules. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online work and support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes acting on values and building a life that matters despite hard emotions, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical steps to change unhelpful thinking patterns and reduce symptoms of anxiety, OCD, and mood difficulties.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings skills for regulating intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships. It can be helpful for managing anger, self-harm urges, and overwhelming reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She adapts tools as progress is made and adjusts the plan when life circumstances change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text messaging for brief updates or check-ins. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, have shorter midweek check-ins, or use a quieter communication method when needed.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English