About Paula
Paula Steele is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience in mental health work. She practices from Maine and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, parenting strain, and relationship and family concerns. Paula uses plain language and practical skills so people can try tools between sessions.
Paula centers sessions on the person in front of her. She relies on a client-centered approach that starts with listening and understanding each person's priorities.
Background and approach
From there she brings in skill-building, mindfulness practices, and ways to change unhelpful thinking when needed. Her background includes work across community and clinical settings supporting adults with depression, trauma histories, substance concerns, and challenges linked to autism and attention differences. That experience shapes how she helps people sort through daily demands, sleeping problems, grief, and anger.
Paula describes herself as empathic and nonjudgmental in sessions. Parents may find her experience useful when juggling caregiving, school interactions, and the day-to-day stress of raising children, including when a child has additional needs. She also addresses issues such as panic attacks, postpartum mood concerns, social anxiety, and general coping with life changes.
Paula blends practical tools with longer-term reflection. Sessions often include goal setting, simple mindfulness exercises, and homework designed to fit busy lives. She encourages building supports outside therapy and developing routines that make daily life more manageable.
Approaches and Online Options that Fit Your Life
Paula commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and helping the person set their own goals, which is helpful when people feel overwhelmed or unsure where to start. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, or sleep disruption.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Paula will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress and life demands change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and demonstrations of skills, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, quick live chat can handle brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing work between sessions. These options let people keep therapy going during workdays, school runs, or when travel makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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