About Paula
Paula McKee is a counsellor with 14 years of experience working across education, bereavement services and independent practice. She is BACP registered, and she focuses on anxiety, stress and relationship difficulties. Paula aims to offer a calm space where people can talk about what feels hard and start to find clearer ways forward.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. That helps when people bring issues about family, abandonment, or attachment styles.
Background and approach
Paula also uses client-centred ways of working, which means sessions are led by what matters to the person in front of her. For people who want practical steps, she offers solution-focused work to set small, achievable goals. This can be useful for problems such as sleeping difficulties, low self-esteem, or coping with life changes.
Paula has experience with bereavement, trauma and loss and aims to hold those experiences gently while prioritising the person’s pace. She has worked in diverse London education settings and with people who have moved country, so she is sensitive to cultural difference and the stresses of relocation. Paula also has experience supporting those with ADHD, chronic illness and caregiving pressures.
Sessions are offered by phone, video, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. Paula usually works on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and offers some evening slots, and sessions are scheduled via the site’s matching and booking process.
Online approaches that combine connection and practical change
Paula uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current habits and feelings. This approach can help with anxiety rooted in attachment patterns, family of origin issues and difficulties forming close connections.She also works in a client-centred way, which means the person’s priorities steer the sessions and the therapist offers empathic listening and reflection. That style is useful when someone needs space to make sense of loss, identity or life transitions.
Paula uses solution-focused techniques to set small, actionable goals and notice progress between sessions. Those methods suit people who want concrete steps for sleeping problems, low mood, stress management or practical changes at work and home.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Paula will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then agree an approach together and adjust it over time as needs change.
Online work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone can fit a busy day or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging suit short check-ins or if someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities or mobility limits and help keep contact consistent between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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