About Paula
Paula Corano is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 15 years of clinical experience in California. She draws on her master’s degree in clinical psychology to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Paula speaks English and Portuguese and aims to make therapy understandable and practical for busy lives.
She uses a strengths-based, goal-focused style. Paula helps people define clear goals and then works with them to change unhelpful thinking and habits.
Background and approach
Sessions combine empathy with direct feedback so clients leave with concrete steps to try between meetings. Paula has worked with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, and ADHD. She also supports people facing career transitions, compassion fatigue, and complex family dynamics like blended families, adoption, and attachment concerns.
Her practice emphasizes cross-cultural awareness and respect for different backgrounds. In sessions she blends attachment-based ideas, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and client-centered listening. That mix helps people understand how relationships and thoughts shape feelings, and then practice different ways of responding.
Paula is comfortable helping clients navigate change, rebuild connection, and reduce overwhelming anxiety. Her approach is collaborative and practical. She partners with each person to set realistic aims and checks progress along the way.
If someone wants a direct, empathetic clinician who offers clear tools for coping, Paula aims to provide that support.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and practical change
Paula often uses attachment-based ideas to help people see how early and close relationships shape current emotions and reactions. That perspective can be useful for people who want to improve connection, understand patterns in relationships, or address attachment issues.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical for managing anxiety, depression, panic, and problems that respond to step-by-step coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula will collaborate with clients to choose techniques that match goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in about what feels useful and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy lets people fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, journaling between sessions, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and flexible while working toward real changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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