About Paula
Paula De Souza is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress alongside a wide range of life challenges. Paula aims to create a calm space where people can talk, make sense of what they are feeling, and decide what to try next.
Paula works in a way that follows the person in front of her. She listens without judgement and lets the conversation shape the pace.
Background and approach
That means sessions stay practical and grounded in the client’s day to day needs. Her main approaches are client-centred work and psychodynamic thinking. Client-centred work means the client’s own goals set the direction.
Psychodynamic thinking looks at how past patterns may influence present worries. People come to Paula for a wide range of concerns including relationships, grief, parenting, eating and body image, trauma and abuse, and work or career pressures. She also supports those dealing with chronic illness, care-related stress and compassion fatigue.
Paula accepts international clients and offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Fees vary by location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How Paula’s approaches work online
Paula uses client-centred talking and psychodynamic thinking in online work. Client‑centred therapy focuses on the person's own goals and choices and is helpful for anxiety, stress and relationship worries. Psychodynamic work looks at recurring patterns and past experiences to understand how they affect current feelings and behaviour, which can help with grief, trauma and attachment concerns.Choosing a way of working is a shared process. Paula will discuss what matters to the client, try different ways of working and adjust the approach as therapy progresses. That collaborative planning helps make sure sessions feel useful and relevant to each person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face‑to‑face conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and need less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging can suit quick check‑ins, people who prefer typing, or those who want flexibility outside standard hours. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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