About Paula
Paula Rainey is a licensed professional counselor in Mississippi with 25 years of experience. She focuses on common life struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and career concerns. Paula emphasizes the client’s own strengths and works to support people as they take steps toward change.
She helps people manage the effects of trauma and abuse and the symptoms of panic or post-traumatic stress. Paula also addresses issues tied to attachment, abandonment, and self-harm in straightforward, practical ways.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, achievable steps. Paula uses approaches that teach skills people can use outside sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build healthier habits.
Mindfulness techniques train attention and calm difficult emotions. When trauma is central, Paula draws on trauma-focused work to reduce overwhelming memories and reactions. She also uses attachment-based ideas to improve how people relate to themselves and others.
Motivational interviewing supports people who feel stuck or unsure about change. Her style is collaborative and direct. Paula listens, reflects, and offers tools people can try between sessions.
She frames progress as gradual and practical rather than sudden or perfect. People can expect clear language, check-ins on goals, and a focus on what works day to day. Paula aims to empower each person to use their own strengths while learning new ways to cope and move forward.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape expectations and reactions. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to improve how people relate to others and to themselves, which can reduce shame and isolation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In video or text formats, CBT homework and thought-tracking are easy to share and review together.Finding the best approach is a team effort. Paula will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She may combine attachment work, CBT, trauma-focused techniques, or mindfulness based on what the person needs and how they respond during early sessions.
Online therapy provides flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues matter. Phone sessions or live chat can fit a short break at work or be used when bandwidth is limited. Text messaging and chat are useful for brief check-ins, reminders, or continuing work between sessions. These options help people maintain regular contact while using the therapeutic methods that suit them best.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English