About Paola
Paola Pawlicki offers a warm, person-centered approach to therapy. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with seven years of experience. Paola aims to create a respectful space where people feel heard and understood before any goal work begins.
She often begins by listening closely and building a strong working relationship. That foundation helps when addressing stress, anxiety, or struggles with self-esteem. Sessions also focus on coping with addictions, relationship difficulties, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Paola draws on straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She weaves in mindfulness practices to help with grounding and emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing techniques are used when clients want support with making and sustaining change.
The work tends to be practical and step-by-step. Clients can expect real conversations about patterns like codependency, control issues, impulsivity, or isolation. Paola also helps people facing family problems, fertility concerns, eating and food-related issues, and questions about life purpose.
Her style is accepting and nonjudgmental. She encourages self-awareness and self-compassion as the basis for change. Over time, clients often gain more confidence and a clearer sense of direction.
Paola provides services in English and works remotely with people located in Florida. She uses a collaborative process that centers each person's goals and pace.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Paola uses a client-centered approach that prioritizes listening and acceptance first. This means the therapist focuses on understanding each person's experience and joins them in shaping the work ahead. It helps when someone needs emotional support and a nonjudgmental space to talk.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT provides practical strategies to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which is useful for anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem. Mindfulness techniques are added to help with grounding and noticing emotions without getting swept away.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Paola collaborates with clients to decide which methods feel most helpful for their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as people make progress or face new challenges.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversations and deeper work, while phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, reflection between sessions, or coaching-style prompts. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English