Paula Grande, LCSW

Paula Grande is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical strategies to reduce stress and anxiety. She uses clear, respectful language and aims to create a calm, patient-centered space for conversation. Paula emphasizes small, manageable steps toward feeling better.

She offers Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions connect to feelings. Paula also draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities and Motivational Interviewing to help clients find their own reasons to change. These approaches are used to address anxiety, depression, and major life changes.

Paula helps people dealing with relationship strain and issues that touch identity, including LGBTQ concerns. She works with people facing grief around separation, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, and feelings of isolation or shame. Communication problems, control issues, and attachment-related worries are also common topics in her sessions.

Her method is collaborative. Paula listens first, then helps set simple goals and practical steps. Sessions focus on habits and small shifts that people can practice between meetings to build forward momentum.

Paula has four years of professional experience and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential in New Jersey. She provides services in English and frames therapy as a gradual process of trying things and adjusting as needed.

How online CBT and client-centered work together

Paula uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to change how they feel. CBT is practical and often focuses on short-term skills for anxiety, mood, and stress. She also uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions follow what matters most to the person and move at their pace.

Motivational Interviewing is sometimes blended in to help people clarify their goals and find personal reasons to try new habits. These approaches are used together so the therapist and client can decide which tools fit the situation. Paula treats the choice of methods as a team effort, adjusting based on progress and preferences.

Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access. Video calls let the conversation feel close to an in-person session. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills between meetings, or fitting support into a busy day. These options provide flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.