Paula Mardit
Support for parents and family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Paula
Paula Mardit is a Licensed Professional Counselor offering support for common parenting and family concerns. She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, sleep and eating concerns, and everyday parenting struggles. Paula works with adolescents ages 12 and up and with adults.
She aims to make the first steps simple and practical so families can find clearer ways forward. Paula uses approaches that focus on current problems and on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions typically look at small, concrete goals that can be tried between visits. She invites people to share what feels most urgent, and she adjusts plans based on what works in real life. Her background includes a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from Wayne State University and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Oakland University.
Those training experiences inform how she understands learning differences, attention challenges, and developmental needs. With about 20 years of experience in counseling, Paula draws on both school-based and clinical perspectives. That experience gives her practical ideas for handling ADHD, autism spectrum issues, learning differences, and age-related concerns when they affect family life or parenting.
At the first visit, Paula encourages clients to say as much as they want and to bring any hopes or questions. She offers weekday daytime hours, some evenings up to 8pm Eastern, and limited weekend times between 9am and 2pm. Sessions are offered in English and held online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online options for family and parenting needs
Paula commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques, which involve identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and stress that affects family life.She also uses solution-focused, goal-oriented techniques that concentrate on small, practical steps and skills parents or adolescents can try between sessions. These strategies help with parenting challenges, problem solving, and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right method is part of the work together. Paula will talk with each person or family about what they want to achieve and try approaches that match those goals. She adapts plans over time based on what helps in daily life, and she involves clients in setting achievable targets.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to allow flexible scheduling. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities and let parents and adolescents access help from home. Licensed professionals can use these options to provide regular, practical support without needing to travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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