About Paula
Paula Lister is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with three decades of experience. She focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or relationship and intimacy concerns. Paula speaks plainly and centers each session on the client's goals and strengths.
She treats trauma, abuse, and addiction-related struggles with steady, evidence-informed care. Paula also helps people who are navigating family conflict, sleep problems, or the emotional impact of chronic illness and pain.
Background and approach
Her work includes support around end-of-life issues and hospice-related counseling. Paula believes clients know their own stories best. In sessions she listens first, then helps people try options that fit their life.
She encourages small, achievable steps toward better coping and clearer communication. Over 30 years, Paula has worked with many kinds of concerns related to mood disorders, panic, and post-traumatic stress. She also offers support for issues like isolation, self-worth, control struggles, and women’s health topics.
Her approach stays focused on what matters right now for each person. Practical matters like sleep, daily routines, and communication patterns often come into the work. Paula uses plain language and collaborative planning so a person leaves each session with something to try between meetings.
She aims to help people feel steadier and more able to manage their lives.
Evidence-based methods and flexible online care
Paula uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common method involves skills-based work to manage anxiety and panic - learning step-by-step breathing, grounding, and behavioral experiments to reduce intense reactions. Another approach emphasizes processing trauma and its effects by gently naming what happened, recognizing its impact, and building safer ways to cope day to day.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try methods that match those needs. She checks in often and adjusts the plan based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls let people talk face to face, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports shorter, ongoing communication. These options make it easier to fit care into work, family, or health routines while keeping treatment consistent and accessible.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English