About Paula
Paula Clifton is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She supports people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those dealing with grief, sleep problems and major life changes. Paula speaks English and works with international clients online.
She aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and move at a pace that suits them.
Background and approach
Paula encourages small, practical steps so people can notice change between appointments. Her work draws on client-centred ideas that put the person’s experience first. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking and build more effective coping skills.
Hypnotherapy may be offered when suitable, for example to address sleep difficulties or strong stress responses. Paula holds BACP registration, and she has three years of professional experience. That background includes supporting people with relationship strain, self-esteem issues, grief, parenting stresses, career worries and compassion fatigue.
Sessions are available via video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs and schedules. Paula invites prospective clients to begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and booking a first session.
How Paula's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own perspective. The counsellor listens carefully and reflects back what they hear so the client feels understood and can explore their feelings. This approach helps when someone needs time to make sense of loss, relationship worries or life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings and actions. Practical exercises help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses. CBT can be useful for anxiety, stress, sleep problems and low mood.
Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help people access calmer states and new ways of responding to stress or sleep disruption. It is offered as an option alongside talking work when it seems likely to help the person's goals.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The counsellor will discuss options and adapt methods to match the person’s needs, goals and preferences. That means sessions can combine listening, cognitive work and relaxation-based techniques as appropriate.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins and written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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