About Paula
Paula Ciocirlau is a counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, stress and relationship strain. She supports people dealing with parenting pressures, career worries, low mood and addiction. Paula also works with concerns such as grief, trauma, self-esteem and ADHD, and can converse in English or Romanian.
She describes therapy as a partnership where the client remains the expert on their life. Paula focuses on clear goals and practical steps while listening to each person's story.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to help people make manageable changes and feel steadier in day-to-day life. Paula trained and began practising in 2016 in Vienna, Austria, and she brings eight years of experience to her work. Her international background has informed how she understands cultural differences and adapts her style to each person.
Her approaches include Client-Centred Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Internal Family Systems. That mix means sessions can be reflective, goal-oriented, or focused on internal parts and relationships within the self, depending on what the client needs. Paula holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She offers sessions across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients when appropriate. To begin, clients use the site questionnaire to match and then arrange sessions that suit their schedule.
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist offers empathy and acceptance so people can explore feelings and make choices that feel right for them. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and relationship concerns.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on clear, practical goals and small steps. Sessions often identify what is already working and build from those strengths to create change. It suits people who want direct, goal-orientated support for issues like stress, career decisions and coping with life changes.
Internal Family Systems looks at different parts of a person's inner world - for example the anxious part or the protective part - and helps them relate to those parts with curiosity rather than judgement. This can be helpful for trauma, attachment issues and patterns that repeat in relationships.
Paula uses these approaches collaboratively. She will discuss options and help decide which methods fit a person's needs, goals and preferences. Finding the right mix is part of the therapy process and can change over time.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier for short check-ins, while live chat or text-based messaging work for people who prefer writing or want more frequent, brief contact. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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