About Paula
Paula Howel is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Welsh and brings seven years of experience to sessions. Paula aims to make the first step feel less daunting for anyone worried about mood or life changes.
She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about grief, anger, depression, or relationship strain. The work is practical and conversational.
Background and approach
Paula listens closely and reflects what she hears so thoughts feel clearer. Paula uses a mix of approaches depending on the person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on client-centred work to follow what matters most to the individual.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas also appear when people want to clarify values and take small steps forward. Sessions often focus on everyday challenges such as sleeping problems, coping with change, parenting worries, work stress, or problems with self-esteem. Paula can also support people dealing with trauma, addiction issues, or neurodivergence-related concerns such as autism and attention differences.
She holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP. Practical session options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. To start, people complete a short questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them and to take small value-led steps. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and life changes where deciding what matters feels hard.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at thinking patterns that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change reactions and behaviours. It often helps with sleep problems, low mood and anxious thinking.
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and following the client’s pace. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of feelings and to decide on next steps.
Paula treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss different methods and agree the plan with each person, adapting techniques to their goals and preferences rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. Video calls are close to face-to-face meetings, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and distance from a therapist.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Welsh
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