About Paul
Paul Hernandez Jr. LPC is a therapist who uses a client-centered approach to help people manage strong emotions and life changes. He draws on decades of experience to make sessions practical and straightforward.
Paul listens closely and helps set clear, realistic goals a person can work toward between meetings. He uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that fuel anxiety, anger, or addictive behavior.
Background and approach
Emotion-focused ideas are blended in to help people understand and express feelings that keep problems stuck. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding reasons to change and building momentum. Paul has worked in counseling and higher education settings for many years.
That background includes individual counseling, group work, aggression control counseling, addiction support, and career counseling. He also has experience supervising counseling services and helping other clinicians develop their skills. People come to him for a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, stress, addictions, anger, low self-esteem, relationship strain, trauma and grief.
He also supports those facing caregiving, chronic illness, or major life transitions. Sessions focus on practical strategies and small steps that add up over time. His style is warm, direct, and goal-focused.
Paul aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person's needs. He invites anyone who wants clearer thinking and steadier emotions to start a conversation and see what fits.
Using practical approaches online to manage emotions and behavior
Paul blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques to create a clear, goal-oriented approach. Client-centered therapy means conversations start with what matters most to the person, with the therapist listening and reflecting to help clarify concerns and goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps by identifying thought patterns and trying small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety, anger, or addictive urges.He also draws on motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and to build commitment for difficult shifts. Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the early work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their needs and goals, and adjusts over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well for lower bandwidth or when someone prefers not to be on camera, and chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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