- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Paula
Paula Corano is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with adults and parents who are juggling stress, relationship strain, mood concerns, and the everyday pressures of family life. Paula speaks English and Portuguese and draws on practical tools to help people move forward.
Paula uses a strength-based outlook that focuses on clear goals and small, doable changes. She combines a client-centered way of listening with techniques that address unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
That mix helps people reduce anxiety, manage anger, and cope with life transitions. Her background includes work with trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and mood disorders. Paula also has experience with adoption and foster care topics, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, and issues that come with blended families.
She pays attention to cultural differences and treats each person's situation as unique. In sessions Paula is empathic and direct. She offers practical feedback and helps clients practice new ways of relating and communicating.
Many people come with goals around intimacy, self-esteem, career stress, or parenting; Paula helps break those goals into steps that fit daily life. Therapy with her often draws on attachment ideas, cognitive behavioral strategies, and mindfulness skills. The focus stays on what matters most to the client and on building tools that can be used outside of sessions.
What Paula works with
Everything Paula lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Paula helps people with.
- 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.
Approaches for online parenting and relationship work
Paula often uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape present relationships; this helps people understand patterns in parenting, intimacy, and communication. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness techniques are used to build attention and calm, which can reduce reactivity in stressful family moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Paula collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies as needed so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video lets people practice interactions and see nonverbal cues, phone calls can be a simpler option when video isn't possible, and messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options increase flexibility for parents and adults managing work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Paula
What kinds of concerns does Paula work with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, parenting struggles, trauma and grief, anger, self-esteem, career issues, and related concerns such as attachment and adoption topics.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is empathic and goal-oriented, blending client-centered listening with practical feedback and strategies to change unhelpful thinking patterns.
How long has she been practicing?
Paula brings 15 years of clinical experience working with individuals and parents on a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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