About Paula
Paula Cleary is a BACP counsellor who helps people feeling stuck, overwhelmed or uncertain about their next steps. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for worries like anxiety, low mood, panic, phobias and relationship stress. Paula aims to make the first steps feel manageable and practical for clients who want clearer direction.
With 16 years of experience, Paula takes a calm, person-focused approach. She listens to what matters to each person and helps them name the problems they face.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, realistic changes that can ease day-to-day pressure and improve wellbeing. Her background includes years of working with people facing grief, family problems, issues around intimacy and anger, and life changes such as separation or loss. Paula brings attention to how patterns of thinking and behaviour affect mood, relationships and self-esteem.
Therapy sessions often use mindfulness exercises to ground difficult moments and solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals. Client-Centred and Existential ideas guide conversations about meaning, choice and personal values. Paula works with adults dealing with panic attacks, mood disorders, isolation and other struggles that can make life feel heavy.
She accepts clients in the United Kingdom and international clients. Sessions are held by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, allowing people to pick what fits them best.
How Paula’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard, build self-understanding and make choices that match their values. Existential Therapy looks at meaning, responsibility and life direction, which can help when major life changes or questions about purpose arise.Paula will work with each person to choose how to combine these approaches. She treats the decision about methods as collaborative and practical. Together they clarify goals and try a way of working that fits the client’s needs and hopes, adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video helps keep visual connection when that matters. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in and ask for less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing and want more flexible, brief contact. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into daily life and to match different communication styles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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