Paula Green, LCPC, LPCC

Paula Green is an LCPC and an LPCC with 20 years of professional experience. She is licensed in Idaho and practices from New Mexico. She works with stress, anxiety, family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, and coping with life changes.

She has substantial experience with domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, including work in a domestic violence shelter and with domestic violence courts. She has also provided training on child sexual abuse prevention. This background informs how she approaches safety and pacing in sessions when trauma is part of the picture.

For eight years she counseled at an outpatient clinic and an intensive partial hospitalization program at St. Luke's Center for Neurobehavioral Medicine. She has worked in both clinic and private practice settings, and has supported people in a variety of clinical contexts. That range gives her experience with short-term and longer-term work.

Her style is practical and client-focused. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to each person. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills. She also uses EMDR and mindfulness approaches when trauma processing or emotion regulation are priorities.

Paula often helps adults, teens, children, and caregivers address blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, communication breakdowns, and the emotional fallout from family of origin problems. She also supports work on body image, shame and guilt, dissociation, and impulsivity. To begin, she asks questions, listens closely, and co-designs the next steps with each person.

How Paula’s approaches work for online sessions