About Paul
Paul Jaffe is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and addictions. He brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on clients' existing strengths. Paul encourages accountability and honest self-reflection as tools for change.
He combines somatic ideas with mindfulness and practical talk therapy. That means paying attention to how the body and thoughts connect, and using simple grounding practices alongside conversation.
Background and approach
He also uses client-centered and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice habits and try new responses to old patterns. Paul often works with concerns tied to attachment, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems. He also addresses life transitions such as divorce, aging, hospice and end-of-life issues, and coping after disasters.
He supports men facing identity and life-purpose questions as well. Sessions emphasize a clearer, kinder view of self. Paul helps people challenge harsh self-talk and build more balanced perspectives.
He invites clients to take responsibility for change while recognizing their limits. Practical tools are mixed with personal meaning. Paul offers mindfulness practices and a spiritual perspective for those who find that helpful.
He welcomes international clients and provides services in English from his California license.
Bringing somatic and talk approaches to online care
Online sessions with Paul draw on somatic therapy and client-centered work to help people notice how their body and mind respond to stress. Somatic-informed work focuses on simple body awareness and grounding practices so people can reduce tension and react less on impulse. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a listening, nonjudgmental stance where the person's goals and pace lead the conversation.He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try small practical changes. CBT tools can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and habits tied to addictions. Together these approaches give both felt-body strategies and concrete behavioral steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. This means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as therapy unfolds.
Online formats offer flexibility and easier access to care. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messaging let people check in between appointments. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English