About Paul
Paul Farley is a licensed professional counselor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. He uses a practical, straightforward style to help clients find ways to feel steadier and more in control. Sessions are aimed at real-life changes, like managing panic, improving communication, and handling big life transitions.
Paul takes a calm and direct approach in the room. He offers a supportive space where people can talk about trauma, relationship struggles, self-esteem, and identity questions without judgment.
Background and approach
He also addresses complex issues such as bipolar symptoms, grief, and problems that come with major changes in life. His methods draw from several psychotherapy approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive-behavioral techniques, emotion-focused work, and EMDR for trauma processing. Paul blends strategies to match what each person needs rather than using one fixed method.
Paul has practiced as an LPC for eight years in Michigan. That experience includes working with people who face isolation, attachment worries, abandonment fears, and the fallout of infidelity or separation. He also supports those navigating gender dysphoria and LGBT-related concerns.
In therapy with Paul, practical steps are paired with attention to emotions. Conversations tend to move from understanding what’s happening now to small experiments and skills to make day-to-day life easier. The aim is steady progress and clearer choices for the future.
How Paul blends approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and still move toward what matters. It focuses on values and small actions that build a more meaningful routine and can help with anxiety, low mood, and motivation struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises and short experiments to reduce panic, manage worry, and change unhelpful habits.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is used to process traumatic memories and reduce their intensity. When appropriate, it is applied to help people who find past events keep affecting daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Paul will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit each person's needs. He treats the process as collaborative and adjusts methods if something isn’t working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat supports quick check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for varied schedules and changing needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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