About Paul
Paul Hugens is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. He brings 40 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, ADHD, stress, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He centers conversations on each person's strengths and practical steps forward.
Paul listens first and helps people name what feels hardest. He often starts by untangling immediate problems - sleep, work strain, or getting along with others - and then builds small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and action-oriented while staying respectful of each person's experience. Over four decades of practice, he has worked with many issues from addiction and bipolar mood concerns to grief and life transitions. He also supports people facing career decisions, isolation, or questions about life purpose.
Paul pays attention to patterns like impulsivity, attachment worries, and communication problems as they come up in everyday life. People who seek his help can expect a collaborative process. He encourages people to try practical strategies between sessions and then reviews what helps.
The work can include coaching-style goal setting along with traditional therapy conversations. Paul conducts sessions in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. He welcomes international clients and works with a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches and online options for practical change
Paul draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on problem solving and behavior change. One common method is goal-focused work that breaks larger problems into small steps and measurable tasks; this helps with issues like career decisions, motivation, and day-to-day organization. Another frequent approach emphasizes managing mood and anxiety through skills like stress reduction, routine building, and learning to notice thought patterns that get in the way; these techniques can be useful for depression, anxiety, ADHD, and coping with life changes.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the process. He collaborates with each person to set priorities, test methods, and adjust plans based on what works. The client’s needs, goals, and preferences guide how sessions are shaped and which strategies are tried first.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice call fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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