Paul Hernandez Jr. LPC.S
Supportive counseling with practical tools
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Paul
Paul Hernandez Jr. is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who uses a straightforward, client-centered style. He focuses on practical steps parents and families can take when life feels overwhelming. He listens closely, helps sort priorities, and works with each person to set clear, reachable goals.
He brings 33 years of experience in mental health and related services. That background includes counseling for stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, self-esteem, relationships, and family concerns.
Background and approach
He also has experience addressing trauma, grief, intimacy-related issues, and challenges such as sleep and eating problems. Paul draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful patterns and develop new skills. He also uses emotionally-focused methods to strengthen important connections and motivational interviewing to foster readiness for change.
His sessions aim to be warm, practical, and respectful while matching tools to the situation. In addition to direct counseling work, he has long experience supervising counseling departments in higher education and providing career-focused guidance. That administrative and clinical background informs how he structures treatment and supports people through transitions.
Parents and family members often seek his help for conflict, blended family questions, communication breakdowns, and caregiving stress. He approaches these issues with patience, clear feedback, and step-by-step strategies to make daily life more manageable.
Using focused approaches in online family and parenting work
Paul often applies cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot patterns of thinking that make stress, anxiety, or anger worse. In simple steps he helps clients test unhelpful thoughts and practice different behaviors that reduce conflict and improve daily functioning.He also uses emotionally-focused therapy to help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. That approach is useful when the goal is improving connection, communication, or resolving recurring family tensions. Motivational interviewing is another tool he brings to conversations when someone needs support finding their own reasons to change painful habits like substance use.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they adjust methods and pacing so work feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy lets people meet from home using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around parenting, work, and caregiving. They also allow for steady progress when attending in-person appointments is difficult, while keeping the focus on practical, skill-based work.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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