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Paula Chu, Ph.D.
Licensed Professional Counselor
Board Certified Coach
Providing counseling and coaching services to healthy people who feel stuck.

Fees and policies

Who are my clients?

My clients are fundamentally healthy, curious, and creative people who are feeling stuck in some way. They have come to counseling because they are finally ready to put to rest some old family issues, or are running into patterns or anxieties that they are tired of carrying around. Counseling helps you return to your purpose of growing and of being a source of light -- in your relationships and in our world.

The process of counseling works best when you are actively involved, honest, and willing to work on your growth both in sessions and between them. No one can "change" you, but counseling can provide a time and a place for you to mobilize your own inner resources to change. My job is to understand your perspective and experience and to hold before you a clearer and more useful "mirror" than the one you might be viewing yourself and your existence in. My purpose is to help you move toward living with compassion, humor, resilience, and a deeper sense of meaning.

Playwright Edward Albee once wrote: "Sometimes you have to shake things up to get them to fall into place." Sometimes counseling shakes things up, stirs up painful memories, losses, regrets. However, I hold a fundamental assumption that the risks involved in working through one's barriers to growth are balanced by the benefits of furthering that growth and embracing greater well-being. I believe we are hard-wired to grow, and that growth will occur naturally if we remove the barriers to that growth.

I value the opportunity to work with clients of varied ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds. I honor loving relationships and families among people of any sexual orientation.

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"Kindness is more important than wisdom,
and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin