About Paula
Paula Barlow is a counsellor who uses a person-centred approach to help people manage stress, anxiety and life changes. She holds the NCPS credential and draws on nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. Paula writes simply and warmly, making space for practical steps and personal strengths during sessions.
Her work focuses on common but heavy problems such as depression, grief, addictions and trauma. She also supports people dealing with relationship difficulties, intimacy questions and communication breakdowns.
Background and approach
Paula gives straightforward tools for coping and building steadier routines. Paula blends gentle psychodynamic reflection with hands-on techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy. She uses mindfulness and, when suitable, hypnotherapy to help lower anxiety and improve sleep.
Sessions aim to be collaborative, with the client’s goals guiding the plan. She often helps people affected by family strain, separation, attachment wounds or issues around adoption and foster care. Other areas she attends to include eating and food-related concerns, anger, self-esteem and career stress.
Paula also works with people navigating fertility, hoarding and problems linked to autism or ADHD. Paula encourages small, achievable steps and respects each person’s pace. Her style is calm and direct, focusing on useful changes rather than jargon.
She invites people to notice what already works and to build on those strengths.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety care
Paula commonly uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy to address anxiety, stress and related problems. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and helping people find their own solutions, which can be useful when someone feels overwhelmed or unsure of the next step. CBT offers concrete techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build different habits that reduce worry and improve sleep.She also makes use of mindfulness to teach simple attention exercises that calm the body and lower arousal. These approaches suit people wanting direct strategies as well as gentle reflection on patterns that keep problems going. Choosing the right mix is a joint process - Paula discusses goals and preferences and adapts the plan as therapy progresses.
Online therapy with Paula can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when a quieter, no-video option is preferred or bandwidth is limited. Text and chat sessions offer short, flexible check-ins and can fit around busy days. These formats make it easier to attend sessions from work, home or elsewhere and provide options for different needs and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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