Paulette Plummer
Compassionate, practical support for family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW, LISW-CP
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Paulette
Paulette Plummer is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing family and parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She has over 26 years of practice and aims to make therapy practical and understandable for busy families. Paulette speaks plainly and focuses on immediate concerns so parents can see usable steps between sessions.
Her work often centers on relationship and family problems, parenting struggles, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, anger, low self esteem, career stress, and ADHD. Additional areas include adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, immigration concerns, and multicultural or discrimination-related stress. Paulette uses approaches that help clients notice patterns and try concrete changes.
She draws from client-centered methods to follow each person’s goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and solution-focused techniques to build small, achievable steps. Therapy with Paulette includes listening deeply, clarifying priorities, and practicing new skills that fit day-to-day life.
She blends empathy with straightforward coaching so people can manage crises and plan for longer-term growth. Sessions aim to strengthen communication, reduce overwhelm, and increase confidence in parenting and family roles. Licensed as an LCSW and an LISW-CP in North Carolina, Paulette brings decades of clinical experience and a focus on culturally responsive care.
She conducts sessions in English and offers multiple online formats for convenience.
Approaches for online family and parenting support
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client’s priorities and personal goals. The therapist listens closely and helps shape the work around what matters most to the family, which can ease decision-making during transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems active and offers concrete strategies to change them. This approach can be useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and daily parenting stress by teaching practical skills to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences and suggest methods that match those priorities. Together they monitor progress and adjust the plan when something is not working well.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions offer flexibility on the go. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and moment-to-moment support when needed. These options help people access consistent care without major disruption to daily routines.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Paulette
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point