Paula Steele, LCSW

Paula Steele is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of clinical experience supporting individuals and families through a wide range of life challenges. She has worked across settings from day treatment and in-home support for children and families to individual counseling for adults facing mental health symptoms, domestic violence, homelessness, chronic illness, and justice-involved backgrounds. Her clinical work includes extensive experience with ADHD, autism spectrum presentations, trauma, depression, anxiety, and parenting concerns.

Paula practices from a strengths-based, client-centered perspective that prioritizes a trusting therapeutic relationship. She emphasizes empathy, nonjudgmental support, and practical skill building, integrating self-care, mindfulness, and the development of natural supports to help clients meet their goals. Her approach is collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs, whether the focus is coping with life changes, improving communication, managing stress and anger, or addressing grief and relationship issues.

As a parent of two children, one with special needs, Paula brings lived experience of navigating services, schools, and the demands of caregiving alongside her professional expertise. She aims to provide a compassionate, realistic path forward for clients working toward greater stability, connection, and well-being.