Paula Ruehling
Calm, experienced guidance for parenting stress
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Paula
Paula Ruehling is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 33 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, work through relationship concerns, and navigate parenting challenges. Her approach centers on respect, sensitivity, and compassion so clients feel heard from the first session.
Paula shapes conversations and plans around each person’s situation. She listens for practical needs and helps set manageable steps toward clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build motivation, strengthen self-esteem, and restore a sense of confidence. Her background includes long-term practice in Georgia and many years treating mood-related concerns. That experience informs how she responds to issues such as panic, social anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress.
She also attends to caregiver stress and challenges tied to chronic illness or disability. Communication skills are a regular focus in therapy with Paula. She helps people clarify what they want to say and practice new ways to connect.
Over time the work is often about reducing isolation, improving day-to-day coping, and finding better routines. Paula adapts her sessions to each person’s needs and pace. She recognizes that starting therapy is a big step and aims to make the process straightforward and supportive.
Conversations can be practical, gentle, or direct depending on what will help most.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Many effective, evidence-based techniques can be used in remote sessions. One approach focuses on skill-building for anxiety and panic - teaching breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to reduce avoidance and regain daily functioning. Another common technique targets mood and self-esteem by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to shift patterns that keep someone stuck.The choice of approach is not fixed at the start. Paula works collaboratively to find the best fit based on the person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them as progress unfolds.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity when life is unpredictable. Many people find the flexibility helps them stay consistent with their work and practice skills between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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