About Paula
Paula Schneider is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience helping people navigate addiction, eating issues, and the emotional fallout that often comes with them. She practices from Florida and brings a calm, direct manner to sessions. Paula focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more connected in their relationships and daily life.
She has worked with people who face anxiety, depression, and relationship strain tied to family history or current conflicts.
Background and approach
Paula also supports those affected by substance use and eating and food-related struggles, and the family members who want to better understand and help loved ones. Her background includes work in treatment settings that use 12-step approaches alongside other therapeutic styles. Paula’s way of working is interactive and goal-focused.
She helps clients set clear objectives and uses reflection, honest feedback, and encouragement to guide progress. She prioritizes listening first, then offers tools that fit each person’s pace and needs. Many people she sees want to understand patterns that come from growing up in difficult family situations.
Paula helps them look at attachment issues, family of origin concerns, and communication problems so they can make practical changes in how they relate to others. She combines tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical strategies, Imago relationship ideas, and client-centered work to tailor sessions. Paula emphasizes self-understanding over blame and supports clients as they build healthier habits and relationships.
How Paula's Approaches Translate to Online Care
Paula draws on attachment-based work to help people understand their close relationships. That approach looks at how early connections influence current bonds and helps with trust, closeness, and communication problems. She also uses client-centered methods that emphasize listening and responding to the person's needs, allowing clients to lead while she offers reflection and support.She pairs these with cognitive behavioral tools when practical problems arise, such as anxiety, mood shifts, or behaviors tied to addiction or eating issues. CBT-style techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new actions to reduce distress and strengthen coping skills. Together, these approaches give both insight into relationship patterns and concrete steps to change day-to-day habits.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Paula will talk with a client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. Clients and therapist decide together which tools feel most useful and how quickly to move through them.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exchange, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English