About Paula
Paula Rovik is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Washington with 18 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her work also covers related concerns such as attachment and abandonment wounds, body image, caregiver stress, and life purpose questions.
Paula takes a compassionate, person-focused approach. She meets each person where they are and adapts methods to fit individual needs rather than using the same plan for everyone.
How Paula works
Sessions often focus on practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and untangling guilt or shame. Her background includes long-term clinical practice across a wide range of situations and cultural backgrounds. Paula draws from several approaches to tailor support, combining skill-building and emotion-focused work as appropriate for each client’s goals.
She also addresses concrete stresses such as money and financial worries, workplace pressures, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and caregiver strain. Veteran and armed forces issues are listed among her focus areas, and multicultural concerns are part of her clinical perspective. Paula aims to create a calm, respectful space where exploration is paced to the person’s readiness.
She encourages people to bring values and faith into sessions if those are important to them. Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative step toward greater ease and clarity.
Paula lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Paula works with
The areas below are the ones Paula selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
How Paula’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, with the therapist listening closely and following the person’s lead to build trust and clarity. It helps with self-worth, isolation, and figuring out what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses practical exercises and thought patterns to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms by identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for overwhelming feelings and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying skill-based CBT tools for anxiety, then shifting to emotion-focused methods to process grief, or mixing approaches as progress unfolds.
The practical benefits of online therapy can include fitting sessions more easily into a busy week, shorter check-ins when time is limited, and options that don’t require travel. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available formats before booking. Many people find that working with a licensed professional remotely makes it simpler to maintain regular appointments and apply new skills between sessions.
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A practical next step
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