About Paula
Paula Bantick-Ward is a BACP counsellor with eight years' experience offering practical, down-to-earth support. She aims to make counselling accessible and convenient for people facing hard periods in life. Paula listens, asks gentle questions, and helps clients find their own voice so they can make changes that matter.
She uses a person-centred approach, which means she stays genuine and non-judgemental in sessions. That helps people feel heard and begin to understand their feelings.
Background and approach
Paula also draws on techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and solution-focused work when these are helpful. Sessions are offered online and by phone, with options for different formats to suit busy lives. Paula may invite creative tools such as metaphor, journaling or structured exercises to help people reflect and try new ways of coping.
Her work is supported by clinical supervision and professional insurance. Paula helps with many concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship issues. She also supports people facing addiction, eating issues, low self-esteem and intimacy-related problems.
Additional areas she focuses on include attachment issues, abandonment, blended family challenges and caregiver stress. People can expect calm, straightforward conversation aimed at making sense of difficult feelings. The emphasis is on practical steps and increased self-awareness so clients can move toward a healthier, more manageable life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a life they care about, which can help with anxiety, stress and low mood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions affect each other and uses structured exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and reshaping emotional responses in relationships and can help with intimacy and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try. This collaborative process means techniques can be adapted as progress is made or new needs emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow conversational depth and visual connection, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, notes between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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