(she/her)
New to Grow
I’m Elizabeth Paul, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker offering trauma-informed psychotherapy for adults navigating trauma, anxiety, family conflict, relationship patterns, identity questions, grief, and major life transitions. My style is warm, direct, collaborative, and grounded in both practical skill-building and deeper exploration. I help clients better understand how past experiences, family systems, culture, attachment, and nervous system responses may be shaping their present lives, so they can move with more clarity, self-trust, and choice.
Our first session is a chance for us to get to know each other and begin understanding what is bringing you to therapy. I’ll ask about your current concerns, relevant history, goals, strengths, supports, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. You do not need to share everything all at once. We’ll move at a manageable pace, discuss what you’re hoping to get from therapy, and begin identifying what kind of support may be most useful.
My strengths are trauma-informed care, systems thinking, and helping clients connect patterns across their emotional life, relationships, family history, and current stressors. I bring experience working with trauma, child welfare, family conflict, crisis, and complex relational dynamics. Clients often come to me when they want therapy that is both practical and emotionally deeper: a space where they can build tools, make meaning, and be understood in context rather than reduced to symptoms.
I work best with adults navigating trauma, anxiety, family conflict, relationship patterns, identity questions, grief, and major life transitions. Many of my clients are thoughtful, sensitive, self-aware, or curious people who want therapy to go deeper than surface-level coping skills, while still leaving with practical tools they can use in daily life. I’m especially well suited to clients who want to understand how past experiences, family dynamics, culture, attachment, and nervous system responses may be shaping their present relationships and sense of self.
Other specialties
I identify as
Trauma Informed Care
I use trauma-informed care as the foundation of my practice. This means I prioritize emotional safety, pacing, consent, and collaboration while helping clients understand how past experiences may be affecting their nervous system, relationships, and sense of self.
EMDR
I use EMDR to help clients process traumatic or distressing experiences that continue to feel emotionally stuck. EMDR can support clients in reducing the intensity of painful memories, body responses, and negative beliefs while building a stronger sense of safety and resilience.
Psychodynamic
I use psychodynamic therapy to help clients explore patterns that may have developed earlier in life and continue to shape current relationships, emotions, and coping strategies. This approach can help bring long-standing patterns into awareness so clients have more choice in how they respond.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
I use culturally sensitive therapy by making room for each client’s identities, values, family history, community context, and lived experiences. I do not assume that one model of healing, family, identity, or success fits everyone.
Family Therapy
I use family therapy to help family members better understand patterns of communication, conflict, roles, and unmet needs. My goal is to support safer, clearer, and more respectful interactions, especially when families are navigating stress, trauma, or major transitions.