Paula Lister

Paula Lister is an Oklahoma Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with three decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship concerns, and the aftereffects of trauma and abuse. Paula emphasizes practical support and steady guidance for people taking a first step toward change.

Paula believes each person knows their own story best and already holds strengths to build on. In sessions she listens for those strengths and helps people find ways to put them into practice. She offers a calm, steady presence while clients sort through painful feelings and make plans for small, manageable changes.

Her background includes long experience working with grief and loss and hospice and end-of-life counseling concerns alongside challenges like chronic pain, illness, and disability. Paula also helps people address sleep problems, panic, mood disorders, and issues with intimacy or communication. Her work often combines practical coping skills with space to process emotion.

Paula aims to make the process approachable. She helps people set clear, realistic goals and checks in about what is working. She supports clients through the immediate crisis of a loss as well as longer-term adjustment and recovery.

For those who want to begin, she asks for an initial description of the issue and what matters most to the client. From there she and the client decide what steps to take together.

How evidence-based methods translate to online care

Paula uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work on common problems. One approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills for anxiety and panic - breathing, grounding, and short behavior changes that reduce symptoms and make day-to-day life easier. Another approach helps people process grief and trauma by creating safe, paced space to remember and make meaning of painful events while building routines that support healing.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Paula treats that as a collaborative process - she listens to what the person needs, tests strategies, and adjusts plans so goals feel realistic and useful. The aim is to match techniques to the client’s goals and preferences rather than follow a fixed formula.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online care can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help people keep continuity of care through illness or during difficult life transitions, while the therapist and client decide together how often and in what style to meet.