About Roger
Roger Pawlak is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, trauma, grief, anxiety, and life transitions. He presents a calm and steady presence and aims to make therapy a practical, manageable part of daily life. Roger works in English and practices from Florida as an LMHC with 13 years of experience.
Roger takes a straightforward, trauma-aware approach. Sessions are meant to be a place to talk through painful memories, recurring patterns, or moments of overwhelming stress.
Background and approach
He listens for what matters most to each person and then helps set clear, achievable steps toward relief and better connection. His work often centers on relationship issues, intimacy concerns, addiction-related struggles, and the emotional fallout of grief or loss. He also supports people dealing with anger, sleep disruption, low self-esteem, and career strain.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, first responder and veteran issues, multicultural concerns, and recovery after brain injury. Roger uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to fit each person’s needs. He emphasizes rebuilding trust, strengthening resilience, and reconnecting with personal values.
Practical tools and gentle coaching are a regular part of sessions so progress carries into everyday life. People who prefer clear goals and a supportive, no-judgment atmosphere tend to find his style helpful. He supports international clients through online formats and adapts sessions to what works best for each person.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Roger commonly uses Cognitive Processing Therapy to help people make sense of traumatic memories and reduce the strong emotions tied to them. This method focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts about a trauma so daily life feels less disrupted.He also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find personal reasons for change and build commitment. This approach is useful for addictions, ambivalence about relationships, or making life adjustments by drawing out a person’s own motivation.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Roger works with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, values, and pace. He checks in regularly and adapts plans based on what is actually helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow for richer conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support ongoing work between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different time zones while keeping focus on progress and practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English