- Goal oriented
- Strengths based
- Warm and interactive
About Paula
Paula Fowler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Tennessee. She has six years of experience and uses a warm, interactive style to help people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and other life strains. Paula emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions.
Her background includes work in a range of care settings and roles that inform her approach to everyday problems. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques, solution-focused strategies, and motivational interviewing to shape conversations and practical steps. Paula tailors sessions to each person's needs and priorities.
In the room she listens for strengths and builds on them. Sessions focus on clear goals, small changes, and techniques people can use between meetings. She encourages clients to identify what matters most and to try manageable steps toward those goals.
Paula also brings experience helping people with relationship concerns, family and parenting issues, trauma and abuse, anger, career questions, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, end-of-life concerns, and health-related challenges. She works with common concerns such as depression, low self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her sessions are collaborative. Paula aims to support people as they make choices and practice new ways of coping. She invites those ready to take steps toward change to begin the process and to set goals that fit their life.
How Paula’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Paula uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often focuses on small, practical steps that reduce anxiety and improve mood, which can be practiced between sessions.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify their goals and find their own reasons to change. This approach is useful when someone feels unsure or stuck about making decisions or taking action.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Paula will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She treats the choice as a team effort and adjusts plans as progress is made.
For practical matters, confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, cut travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow people to use tools like worksheets, goal trackers, and brief between-session exercises that support steady progress.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Paula help address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, self esteem, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, career issues, and coping with life changes.
How does she approach therapy?
Her style is warm and interactive. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies, solution-focused techniques, and motivational interviewing to set goals and practice steps between sessions.
What is her clinical background?
She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and has six years of experience supporting people with mental health and life challenges.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is licensed in Tennessee as an LCSW and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Paula?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.