About Paula
Paula Corano is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who brings 15 years of practice to people facing life’s hard moments. She works from California and speaks English and Portuguese.
Background and approach
Paula aims to help clients set clear goals and make steady, practical changes. Her style blends warm listening with hands-on problem solving.
Sessions focus on identifying what matters to each person, then building steps to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She uses empathy alongside direct feedback to keep work focused and useful.
Paula supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy challenges. She also helps with parenting concerns, career strain, caregiving stress, and the impact of trauma and abuse.
Her background includes work with mood conditions such as bipolar disorder and attention concerns like ADHD. She draws on approaches that include attachment-based ideas, client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused methods, and mindfulness practices.
These are used to help with communication problems, codependency, abandonment issues, blended family concerns, and other struggles. Paula values cultural awareness and respects different family and life backgrounds.
She aims to make therapy practical and concrete, so people can notice improvement between sessions. The first step is deciding on goals together and choosing steps that fit a person's life.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Paula uses attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior, helping people improve connection and safety in important relationships. She also uses client-centered techniques that prioritize the person’s experience, listening closely and following each person’s goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy is part of her practice too, using clear steps to change thinking patterns and try new behaviors to reduce symptoms.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will talk with the client about goals, life circumstances, and what methods feel most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize relationship work, skill-building, or mindful awareness so therapy fits the person’s needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are useful for longer, face-to-face conversations, while phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging can fit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or regular progress notes between longer sessions. This range of formats helps people fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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