About Paul
Paul Linger is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage stress, anxiety and addictions. He works with concerns including depression, trauma and relationship problems. Paul also supports people facing grief, parenting strains, body image and career challenges.
Paul believes each person knows themselves best and brings strengths to therapy. He uses a warm, interactive style and aims to treat people with respect and compassion. Sessions are tailored to the person rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Before independent practice Paul spent a decade working across mental health services. His background includes autism and additional needs work, addictions support, youth work and social care. More recently he worked within the NHS in a community mental health setting.
Paul holds BACP registration, which is listed as his professional credential. He has around four years of professional counselling experience in direct practice alongside his wider mental health background. In sessions Paul blends practical talking therapies such as cognitive behavioural techniques with person-centred and attachment-informed ways of working.
He aims to help people build coping skills, clarify values and make changes that suit their life. People who choose his approach can expect straightforward discussion, collaborative planning and practical tools to try between meetings. Paul presents therapy as a partnership and offers support for everyday pressures as well as more complex concerns.
Therapeutic methods for online care and flexibility
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people live by their values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It often involves simple exercises to notice thoughts and take small value-driven steps, which can be practised between sessions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses structured tasks to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change ways of relating that cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different methods and choose what fits the person's goals and preferences. That choice is collaborative and may be reviewed as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can be useful for short check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options help people access regular support from home, work or elsewhere and allow flexibility in how they engage with the work.
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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
- 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
- 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
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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