About Paula
Paula Lowden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon who helps people facing grief, relationship strain, parenting pressures, and shifts in self-esteem. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Paula aims to make starting therapy feel doable for someone who is hesitating or overwhelmed.
Paula draws on 14 years of experience to support people through life changes and difficult transitions. She listens without judgment and helps clients name what matters to them.
Background and approach
Together they set small goals and try strategies that fit everyday life. Her work often addresses complicated situations like caregiving stress, cancer-related worries, aging concerns, and the fallout from separation or family conflict. Paula also helps people dealing with guilt, shame, questions about life purpose, and recovery from traumatic events.
Paula uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to help people accept hard feelings and take value-driven action. She also brings elements of Existential Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help clarify choices and build motivation. Sessions are practical and conversational.
Paula offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. She encourages people to take a small step - asking for help is the first part of change.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Paula commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that reflect their values. This approach can be useful for coping with grief, life transitions, and low self-esteem.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, an approach that emphasizes respectful listening and the client’s own pace. That method helps people feel heard and understood as they work through parenting stress, relationship concerns, and questions about life purpose.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She checks in and adjusts strategies based on what helps most over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more convenient. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to keep therapy consistent.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English