About Paula
Paula Barlow is a counsellor who uses a compassionate, person-focused approach. She centres sessions on the client's experience and builds on their strengths to face stress, anxiety, addiction and depression. Paula holds NCPS accreditation and brings nine years of practice in the United Kingdom.
She supports people coping with trauma, grief and relationship difficulties. Sessions often focus on communication, rebuilding trust, and improving emotional intimacy between partners. Paula also helps with eating and sleeping issues, anger, self-esteem and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several approaches. Client-Centred Therapy shapes the room so clients lead the pace and topics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different actions.
Mindfulness and hypnotherapy techniques can be introduced to calm the nervous system and build focus. Paula combines short-term, goal-focused tools with longer conversations about underlying patterns. She encourages practical steps between sessions and tracks progress together.
That mix is chosen to suit each person's goals and day-to-day needs. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Paula communicates in English and works from the United Kingdom.
To begin, a straightforward matching process helps connect people to her practice.
How Paula’s approaches translate to online therapy
Paula blends Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in ways that work well online. Client-Centred Therapy means the session follows the client’s concerns and pace; online formats let conversations continue even when life is busy. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting thought patterns and testing small behavioural changes between sessions, which can be supported through messaging and video work.She may also introduce mindfulness practices to help reduce reactivity and improve focus. Mindfulness exercises are short and can be practised between video calls or as audio prompts during a phone session. Paula will work together with each person to decide which approaches feel most useful based on goals and preferences rather than imposing a single method.
Using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility. Video is useful for longer therapeutic conversation and visual connection, phone calls work well for lower bandwidth or brief check-ins, live chat suits real-time conversation without being on camera, and messaging supports short reflections or ongoing notes between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family time and other commitments while keeping the focus on achievable progress.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Paula commonly help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much professional experience does she have?
What credentials and location are on record?
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Which session formats are available?
How does pricing work for sessions?
What is the first step to begin therapy?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.