Paula Ciocirlau
Calm practical therapy for everyday challenges
About Paula
Paula Ciocirlau helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or major life changes. She works with clients who are managing relationship strain, parenting pressures, career uncertainty, addiction concerns, grief, or struggles with self-esteem and intimacy. Paula communicates plainly and creates space for people to talk through what matters most to them.
Paula uses a person-focused style that keeps the client at the centre of sessions. She draws on Client-Centred Therapy to listen deeply and respond to each person's priorities.
Background and approach
She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear goals and work on practical steps between meetings. Her approach includes Internal Family Systems ideas to help people understand different parts of themselves and how they interact. Paula adapts these methods to each person’s situation rather than following a single script.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit each person's comfort and needs. Paula qualified and began practising in 2016 in Vienna, Austria, and she has eight years of clinical experience. She holds BACP registration, which is listed here as a credential.
Her international background informs how she relates to diverse cultural perspectives. She offers sessions in English and Romanian and accepts international clients. Work can cover many specific concerns from ADHD and trauma to caregiver stress, body image and chronic illness.
Paula aims to help people make small, sustainable changes and to find clearer ways forward.
What Paula works with
How Paula works
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Sessions & fees
How Paula's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a steady, empathetic space to make sense of difficult feelings. Solution-Focused Therapy looks at small, practical steps and clear goals, which can be useful for people wanting quick, manageable changes. Internal Family Systems helps people identify different parts of themselves and how those parts interact, offering a way to understand patterns that cause distress.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, giving practical flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and hold fuller conversations. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins, ongoing support or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Registered or accredited professionals can provide these options to make therapy fit into different routines and lifestyles.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Romanian
