About Paula
Paula Byrne is a counsellor with six years' experience working with people under stress. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Paula offers a calm, non-judgemental presence for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She keeps sessions simple and practical. Paula listens closely and helps untangle the issues that feel confusing or heavy. She adapts the pace to each person and focuses on what is most helpful right now.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in a GP surgery, a homeless hostel, and with the Samaritans. Before counselling she worked as a hairdresser and barber, where she learned the value of honest listening and human connection. Paula helps people dealing with stress and anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions and intimacy-related concerns.
She also supports people facing issues linked to attachment, abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, and life changes such as separation or blended family challenges. Her approach draws on attachment-based ways of working, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural ideas, emotionally-focused techniques and elements of Jungian thought. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged for people inside or outside the United Kingdom.
How Paula blends therapeutic approaches for online work
Paula commonly draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centred listening. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds influence current feelings and reactions, which can help with anxiety or relationship pain. Client-centred work focuses on giving the person space to be heard, with the counsellor following the client's concerns and pace.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try practical ways of responding differently. CBT can be useful for managing stress, phobias and anxiety by breaking problems into small, changeable steps. Paula treats the choice of approach as a collaborative matter and will help the client decide which methods best match their goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for her work. Video calls let visual connection and non-verbal cues guide the session. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins, written reflection and support when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep appointments around busy days or when travel is difficult, while still allowing therapists and registered or accredited professionals to work together with the client on clear goals and coping strategies.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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