About Paul
Paul Weeden is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. He uses straightforward conversation and practical techniques to help clients feel less overwhelmed. Paul speaks English and works with adults from the United Kingdom and internationally.
Paul draws on 15 years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP. He creates a calm space where people can talk about what is worrying them without feeling judged.
Background and approach
He often introduces simple breathing and relaxation exercises during sessions to reduce immediate stress and help clients feel steadier. He mixes different ways of working to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) ideas are used to spot thought patterns that feed anxiety and to try practical changes.
Client-centred listening offers time to reflect on feelings and priorities. Paul also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice the present moment and reduce rumination. Solution-focused ideas guide short-term planning for achievable steps, while psychodynamic ideas can help if someone wants to look at longer-term patterns.
His approach is down-to-earth and practical. He encourages better routines, work-life balance and meaningful activities as part of recovery. Sessions can include coaching-style planning for career or lifestyle goals alongside emotional work.
People meet Paul for a mix of talking, simple exercises and practical goal-setting. He aims to support clearer thinking, more manageable routines and steps toward a less stressful life.
Approaches that suit online therapy and everyday life
Paul uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice anxious thoughts and try practical changes. CBT is about spotting unhelpful thinking, testing it out and building small new habits that reduce worry and improve mood.He also works in a client-centred way, offering time to talk while the counsellor listens without judgement. This approach helps people feel heard and to clarify what matters most to them. Mindfulness techniques are used to slow down racing thoughts and to build short practices that reduce rumination.
Choosing the right way of working is part of therapy. Paul treats the decision as a collaboration and will adjust methods to match a person’s goals, preferences and practical needs. He may blend short-term, solution-focused tasks with longer conversations about patterns if that is helpful.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is useful. Phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflections or when a shorter format suits a busy day.
Together these options give flexibility so people can keep making progress while juggling work, family or travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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