About Kendra
Kendra Paulsen uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, career questions, and major life changes. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with seven years of professional experience in California.
Background and approach
Her style is respectful and direct, focused on meeting each person where they are and listening first. She adapts sessions to fit individual needs, shaping conversation and goals around what matters most to the client.
Kendra supports people dealing with depression, panic attacks, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with codependency, control struggles, family of origin concerns, and questions about life purpose.
Kendra integrates techniques from mindfulness and narrative work to help people notice patterns and try new responses. She also draws on Jungian ideas when exploring meaning and personal stories.
For trauma that remains stuck, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing may be used as part of treatment. Sessions aim to be practical and understandable.
She works with clients to set clear, manageable steps and to build tools for everyday life. Conversations are paced to the client’s comfort and timelines.
Her practice emphasizes compassion and respect while helping clients face guilt, shame, and difficult decisions. Kendra helps people clarify values and make changes that fit their life.
She encourages small experiments so progress feels real and sustainable.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting conversation. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they say, and helps them find their own answers. This approach is helpful for stress, anxiety, and life direction work where talking and being heard matter.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a method used to process traumatic memories that feel stuck. In practice it guides clients through focused attention and memory work to reduce intense reactions tied to past events. It can be useful for panic, post-traumatic stress, and lingering trauma symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit the client's goals and comfort level. Decisions are made together, and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people meet face to face, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping care consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Depression
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English