About Paul
Paul Steele is a licensed counselor based in Florida with 17 years of professional experience. He uses practical talk and focused tools to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with motivation and self-esteem. He creates a calm, respectful setting and adapts sessions to each person's situation.
Conversations are grounded and direct so clients can practice new ways of thinking and behaving between meetings. That approach is useful for people dealing with everyday pressures or longer-term mood concerns.
Background and approach
Paul works with issues around family relationships, communication problems, and life transitions. He also supports people managing trauma, grief, intimacy concerns, career questions, and ADHD-related struggles. Sessions often include concrete strategies for coping and small steps toward better routines.
He draws on several therapeutic styles to fit the client’s needs, including client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques for changing unhelpful thoughts and habits. Motivational interviewing is used to strengthen goals and commitment. Psychodynamic ideas and solution-focused work help uncover patterns and set practical next steps.
Paul explains options clearly and involves clients in planning treatment. He respects individual differences and offers straightforward feedback aimed at usable change. To begin, he encourages people to take the first step and arrange a time to talk.
Approach, Collaboration, and Online Sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what they say, and helps them clarify goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and provides concrete exercises to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change unhelpful routines.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan if something isn't working. This lets clients shape therapy around what helps them most and builds skills that fit everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and therapy more accessible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text are convenient for brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels more natural. These options let clients fit therapy into work breaks, travel days, or busy home schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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