Paula Schneider, LCSW

Paula Schneider is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), a credential that reflects advanced training in clinical social work and therapeutic practice. She brings two decades of experience working with individuals, couples and families who face a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges, including addictions and eating disorders as well as the anxiety and depression that commonly accompany those struggles.

Her background includes both direct clinical work with people managing substance use and food-related issues and support for the family members trying to understand and help their loved ones. That work has given her practical familiarity with 12-step philosophy, therapeutic community approaches, cognitive behavioral therapy, humanistic methods, motivational interviewing, structural family therapy and internal family systems therapy.

Paula has also supported people who grew up in families where their needs were not consistently met and who now want to examine those early experiences to create healthier patterns. Those clients often present with anxiety, depression and relational challenges involving parents, partners and children. She approaches this work by helping clients explore their histories, clarify goals and make sustainable changes.

As a mature woman with family experience of her own, she emphasizes reducing blame and shame while fostering self-understanding and self-acceptance. Her style is supportive and interactive; she respects each person s pace while offering reflective, challenging and encouraging interventions. Paula values the courage it takes to begin therapy and works collaboratively with clients who often have the clearest sense of their own needs, guiding them toward the outcomes they want to achieve.