About Paula
Paula Bantick-Ward is a BACP counsellor with eight years' practice based in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety and the many life changes that can feel overwhelming. Paula offers practical, down-to-earth support for everyday struggles and more complex difficulties such as addiction, grief and relationship issues.
Her way of working is warm, non-judgemental and person-centred. Sessions are client-led and Paula listens closely to what matters to each person.
Background and approach
She aims to help people find words for their feelings and understand how those feelings shape actions and choices. Paula uses a mix of approaches depending on what a person needs. That can include cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts, attachment-focused work to understand relationship patterns, and acceptance and commitment techniques to build values-led action.
She may also suggest creative exercises like journaling or metaphors to make progress between sessions. Therapy can address practical concerns such as coping strategies, anger, eating-related problems, career worries and self-esteem. Paula also supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, domestic violence, bereavement and issues linked to adoption, abandonment or caregiving stress.
Sessions are available online by video or phone, and through live chat or messaging for people who prefer text. Paula follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework and receives clinical supervision for her work.
How Paula's approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to take small actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, low mood and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect present connections and helps people change those patterns for healthier interactions. Client-Centred Therapy offers a non-directive space where the counsellor listens with empathy and supports a person to find their own answers.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and suggest ways of working that feel most helpful. She may combine elements from different approaches so sessions fit the issue and the individual.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual contact matters for relationship work, while phone calls can be better when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing, want flexible brief check-ins, or find it easier to reflect in text. These options make therapy more convenient and easier to fit around work, family and other commitments.
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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
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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