- Strengths-based approach
- Warm supportive style
- Practical coping steps
About Paula
Paula Sussman is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people build on their strengths. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, self esteem, and coping with life changes. Paula meets with adults in Colorado and aims to create a warm, respectful space where people feel heard and understood.
Her work centers on each person’s experience and perspective. Paula listens for what matters most and helps clients tap into their own capacity for change. She brings compassion, a gentle sense of humor, and plainspoken guidance to conversations about difficult feelings.
Paula often helps people facing caregiving demands, chronic illness or pain, and the challenges of aging. She also supports those dealing with isolation, guilt, emptiness, or questions about life purpose. Paula pays attention to practical needs as well as emotional ones when people are coping with loss or major transitions.
In sessions she uses Client-Centered Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape work that fits each person. These approaches guide conversations rather than impose a single method. Paula encourages active collaboration to set goals and try small steps that build confidence and momentum.
She works from Denver, Colorado and sees clients across the state. If scheduling is tight, Paula invites prospective clients to message her so she can try to accommodate different timing needs. She welcomes questions from people who want to know if her style is a good fit for them.
Her work centers on each person’s experience and perspective. Paula listens for what matters most and helps clients tap into their own capacity for change. She brings compassion, a gentle sense of humor, and plainspoken guidance to conversations about difficult feelings.
Paula often helps people facing caregiving demands, chronic illness or pain, and the challenges of aging. She also supports those dealing with isolation, guilt, emptiness, or questions about life purpose. Paula pays attention to practical needs as well as emotional ones when people are coping with loss or major transitions.
In sessions she uses Client-Centered Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape work that fits each person. These approaches guide conversations rather than impose a single method. Paula encourages active collaboration to set goals and try small steps that build confidence and momentum.
She works from Denver, Colorado and sees clients across the state. If scheduling is tight, Paula invites prospective clients to message her so she can try to accommodate different timing needs. She welcomes questions from people who want to know if her style is a good fit for them.