
Paula M Smith
Pre-Licensed Professional, PHD , Cand, MDiv, MFT
Location
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Imago Providence
1005 Main St Ste 1208
Hope Artiste Village
Pawtucket, RI 02860
(401) 250-8963
1005 Main St Ste 1208
Hope Artiste Village
Pawtucket, RI 02860
My ideal clients are couples! *Currently, I am only accepting couples willing to pay out of pocket. Sliding scale considered.* Relationships are complex and living in a close intimate relationship is very hard. I teach you and your partner to communicate, so that you learn to "listen" and "talk" so that the other can "listen." Imago therapy gives you a structure so you can use it at home. We are successful when we feel safe and we can go forward in a happy positive way. Otherwise the meaning of your relationship and everything built on it, is trivialize and taken for granted and undermines success in all other areas of your life.
In therapy the "relationship" itself is the therapy. The two relational forces I use to help create change between partners are dynamics of "difference and empathy." Empathy happens when partners have the same "shared" experience. These powerful forces create change in your relationship because it pulls you in the same direction rather than drive you apart.
Any relationship/marriage overflowing with tension, resentments, fears, conflict is too painful. If you're "both" ready to stop the old dysfunctional dance, go deeper, communicate with respect and learn skills that work outside the therapy office then I invite you to reach out. The therapy is for your "relationship" and healing the pain in "relationship."
Call or Email Paula M Smith for a free phone consultation now - (401) 250-8963
Finances
- Cost per Session: $200 - $250
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Pay By:
ACH Bank transfer, American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Paypal, Visa, Wire
The work that I do is not covered by insurances because it doesn't fall within diagnostic categories. Couples self pay.
Email me or call (401) 250-8963 with questions.
Qualifications
- Prelicense: Rhode Island
- School: Antioch University New England
- Year Graduated: 2012
- Supervisor: Marie Gaspar
- Supervisor License: Rhode Island / 995
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: Harvard University / M.Div.
- Certificate Date: 2005
- Certificate: Imago Relationship International / Advanced Imago Clinician
- Certificate Date: 1999
Paula M Smith's Groups
Couples Workshops - Monthly
Through Conflict to Connection is one-day educational seminar held monthly that's created to help couples reconnect with the hope and magical gift that brought them together. Couples are guided through a safe and structured process that begins to transform conflict into deeper connection. By choosing to attend this IMAGO-based seminar you and your partner have taken a step toward creating a relationship that is an expression of the vision you share of a loving, enriching, safe and passionate partnership.
Location
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Specialties
- Marital and Premarital
- Infidelity
- Relationship Issues
Issues
- Alcohol Use
- Codependency
- Couples Workshops
- Divorce
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Racial Identity
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Abuse
- Spirituality
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Women's Issues
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- Lesbian
- Gay
Client Focus
Ethnicity:
Black and African American and Other Racial or Ethnic Background
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
Communities
- Aviation Professionals
- Bisexual Allied
- Cancer
- Gay Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Transgender Allied
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Coaching
- Encountered-Centered Couples Therapy
- Existential
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Imago
- Memory Reconsolidation Therapy
- Multicultural
- Relational
- Relational Neurobiology
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Couples
- Group
Professional Connections
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2020