Paulette Plummer, LCSW, LISW-CP

Paulette Plummer, LCSW, LISW-CP, is a licensed social worker in North Carolina with 26 years of clinical experience supporting people through major life transitions and emotional challenges. Her practice emphasizes compassionate, culturally responsive care that honors each person s background and lived experience. She uses a collaborative style to help clients address stress, anxiety, relationship and family dynamics, grief, parenting concerns, trauma, mood disorders, and issues related to identity and discrimination.

Paulette draws on a broad clinical background to create a space where individuals and families can explore painful emotions, process interpersonal conflicts, and build practical coping skills. She focuses on healing from isolation, shame, and the effects of trauma while strengthening communication, self-understanding, and resilience. Her approach is attentive to multicultural concerns, adoption and foster care experiences, blended family challenges, and the particular stresses faced by marginalized communities.

With a commitment to practical problem solving and personal growth, Paulette supports clients working on career stress, self-esteem, impulsivity, and parenting challenges as well as those coping with life changes such as divorce or separation. She aims to empower people to make meaningful changes, deepen their relationships, and move forward with greater confidence and stability.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support

Paulette Plummer uses client-centered therapy to create an accepting, nonjudgmental space where clients lead the pace and focus of work while the therapist reflects and supports personal insight. This approach helps people work through identity concerns, relationship challenges, grief, and the emotional impacts of discrimination by prioritizing the client s experience and values.

She also integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that identifies unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches skills to manage anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms. CBT is useful for clients seeking concrete strategies to reduce worry, improve mood, and change behaviors that get in the way of daily functioning.

Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses to help people explore ambivalence about change and strengthen internal motivation. That approach can be especially helpful for clients facing life transitions, substance concerns, or readiness issues around relationships and parenting.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Paulette works collaboratively with each person to identify methods that fit their goals, preferences, and situation, and she adjusts strategies over time as needs change. Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to access licensed professionals and therapists from home, work, or while traveling, and to schedule sessions around busy lives.