About Paul
Paul Gledhill is a counsellor who uses psychodynamic therapy to help people understand patterns in their thoughts and feelings. He speaks plainly and aims to make therapy practical and down to earth. He focuses on helping with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship and intimacy-related issues.
He explains things in straightforward language and prefers a direct, non-judgemental style. Sessions look at past and present experiences to uncover how they shape current behaviour.
Background and approach
That can include issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, and self-esteem. Over six years he has worked with people facing trauma, abuse, addictions and major life changes. His background includes a Masters degree in psychodynamic therapy and ongoing doctoral research into how therapy works for certain groups.
He uses that experience to guide conversations and reflections during sessions. In practice he helps with career struggles, communication problems and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. He also assists people dealing with adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress and commitment or control issues.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Paul conducts sessions in English from the United Kingdom. He offers a range of online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How psychodynamic work fits into online therapy
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on understanding how past experiences shape current feelings and relationships. It helps people notice repeating patterns, thoughts and emotions that cause distress and then work through them in conversation.Sessions are conversational and reflective, often looking at feelings that come up in the moment and linking them to earlier life events. This approach can be useful for anxiety, relationship difficulties, self-esteem concerns and coping with trauma or loss.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together they will decide if psychodynamic work feels suitable. That collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to what the person needs right now.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or day-to-day routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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