About Paul
Paul Hernandez Jr. is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with over three decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, anger, and self-esteem. He works from a respectful and interactive stance and focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Paul practices in Texas and provides services aimed at helping individuals move toward clearer goals and better coping skills.
Paul uses a mix of client-centered methods and cognitive-behavioral techniques.
Background and approach
He also draws on emotionally-focused ideas and motivational interviewing to address relationship strain, intimacy concerns, and attachment issues. Sessions often include straightforward tools for managing emotions and concrete plans for change. His background includes long experience in counseling, group work, aggression control, and career counseling.
He has worked in higher education settings supervising counseling and mental health services, and he has provided counseling to students and their families over many years. That administrative and clinical experience informs a practical approach to problems such as career transitions, parenting strain, and coping with illness. Clients can expect a warm, interactive style that values respect and sensitivity.
Paul aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s situation. He helps people set realistic goals and develop step-by-step strategies for relationship concerns, addiction recovery, grief, or life changes. Paul also supports people facing fatigue and burnout, chronic pain or illness challenges, blended family issues, and first responder stress.
He brings a steady, solution-oriented perspective while working with each person’s priorities and strengths.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Paul blends client-centered therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people address emotions and behaviors that feel stuck. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building trust so people feel heard and can name their priorities. Cognitive-behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and habits and teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. That might mean focusing on practical skill-building in one phase and deeper emotion work in another, depending on what the client needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when face-to-face conversation matters. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text can work for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English