Paulina Ulano, LCSW-R

Paulina Ulano is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and major life changes. She practices in New York and draws on more than 22 years of experience supporting people through hard transitions and ongoing emotional struggle.

Her sessions tend to be warm and curious. She listens closely and asks questions that help people notice patterns in their thoughts and relationships. The goal is to make difficult feelings easier to understand and manage in daily life.

In clinical work she integrates psychodynamic ideas, trauma-informed care, person-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she pays attention to how past relationships shape current feelings, stays mindful of trauma’s effects, centers the person’s goals, and uses practical steps to change unhelpful thinking or behavior.

Paulina also focuses on concerns often tied to aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and multicultural challenges. She supports people coping with loss, separation, social withdrawal, and questions of life purpose.

Her approach is collaborative: she and the person in therapy decide together which methods to try and adjust those methods as needed. The work mixes gentle exploration with concrete tools to use between sessions.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Paulina describes using psychodynamic ideas, trauma-informed care, person-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques. Psychodynamic work looks at how earlier relationships shape current feelings and behavior, which can help when patterns repeat over time. Trauma-informed care focuses on recognizing and responding to past trauma so people feel safer exploring difficult memories and reactions.

Person-centered listening emphasizes the person’s own goals and pace, creating space for them to lead the work. Cognitive behavioral techniques offer concrete tools and experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life changes. Paulina blends these approaches to match the issue at hand rather than using one fixed method.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made. This collaborative process helps make sessions feel relevant and practical.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow more consistent follow-up between appointments. It can also let people choose quieter times or shorter check-ins when that suits their schedule.