Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Paula works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Paula
Paula Corano is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 15 years of clinical experience in California. She supports people working through stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, anger, grief, and major life changes. Paula speaks English and Portuguese and uses a practical, goal-focused style that centers on each person’s priorities.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand connection and patterns that shape relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are woven in to build moment-to-moment awareness and stress management skills. Paula aims for sessions that are straightforward and collaborative. She helps clients set clear goals, try concrete skills between meetings, and track progress over time.
Her approach mixes empathy with direct feedback so people can make steady changes without getting stuck in vague talk. Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, parenting and adoption issues, caregiver stress, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and intimacy-related struggles. She has experience helping people cope after disasters and with complicated grief and loss.
Clients can expect short-term strategies and longer-term work depending on needs. Paula respects cultural differences and pays attention to each person’s context when suggesting interventions. To begin, she asks about current goals and works with clients to build a plan that fits their life.
What Paula works with
Everything Paula lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Paula's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Paula lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns of relating influence present relationships. Online sessions can be used to talk through those patterns, notice feelings in the moment, and practice new ways of connecting with partners or family members. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In remote sessions clients learn practical exercises, track thoughts and try behavior experiments between meetings to see what changes.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust the plan as work progresses. That way clients help shape which approaches are used and how sessions are structured.
Online formats offer flexibility and multiple ways to meet. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and observing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter, shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, practicing skills, or checking in between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
Questions people ask about Paula
What kinds of problems does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, anger, parenting concerns, grief, trauma, and life transitions among other issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style combines empathy with clear goals and practical feedback. Sessions focus on setting objectives and trying real skills between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of professional experience working with individuals and families on behavioral and emotional challenges.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in California.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese.
Can I meet online and how are sessions delivered?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what suits the client.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.