About Paul
Paul Brunner is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. He offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, trauma, or low self-esteem. Paul works in Colorado and assists people dealing with career strain, sleep troubles, addiction concerns, and identity-related stressors including LGBT issues.
He began his mental health career in the Army in 1999 as a mental health technician and later served as an Army officer and active duty social worker.
Background and approach
Paul completed a Master of Social Work and met licensing requirements for Colorado and North Carolina, holding the LCSW and CSW credentials. Paul uses practical, skills-based approaches in sessions. He draws on methods like cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and trauma-focused tools to help people manage symptoms and regain control over daily life.
Sessions tend to focus on small, doable changes rather than abstract theory. He has experience providing trauma-informed care and substance abuse treatment for veterans and has worked with survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse. That background informs how he approaches safety and pacing in therapy.
Paul aims to meet clients where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable. He encourages clear goals, teaches coping skills, and helps people build routines that reduce anxiety and improve sleep and daily functioning.
How Paul applies practical therapies online
Paul often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions typically involve identifying patterns, testing new reactions, and building small experiments to reduce anxiety and improve daily routines.He also incorporates mindfulness practices to help people manage stress and grounding skills for moments of high emotion. Mindfulness in sessions usually means simple breathing exercises, body awareness, and short attention exercises that can be practiced between meetings.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Paul will work with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, comfort level, and the issues they want to address. He aims to adjust pacing and techniques as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit regular work on anxiety, trauma, or behavioral changes into a weekly routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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