About Paula
Paula Rea is a BACP and NCPS registered counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She has four years of professional experience and focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and trauma. Paula aims to make the first steps feel manageable and offers steady support as people begin to make changes.
She works in a collaborative way and invites clients to talk about what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions are a space to say what is hard without judgement. Paula pays attention to thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and helps people find clearer ways forward. Her approach draws on a mix of talking methods that suit different needs.
That means practical tools for coping with stress and anxiety alongside work on how past attachment or relationship patterns shape current life. Paula also usesClient-Centred ideas to keep the work focused on each person’s priorities. People come with a range of concerns, from grief and loss to problems with sleep, eating or motivation.
She also supports those facing burnout, compassion fatigue, long-term health issues and recovery from addiction. Paula will listen and help identify small, realistic steps that fit daily life. Paula aims for clear, straightforward conversations.
She explains approaches plainly and adapts the work to each person. For someone feeling stuck or overwhelmed, she tries to make therapy practical and hopeful.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, stress and motivation by moving focus from trying to control feelings to building a meaningful life.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It offers simple strategies to reduce unhelpful thinking patterns and practical steps to change behaviours that maintain anxiety or low mood.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and relationships. It can be useful for people wanting to understand recurring relationship problems or attachment-related distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula will talk with the client about their goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan so the sessions remain relevant and effective for day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for people who prefer writing or need brief, frequent support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and health commitments while using the approaches above in a way that suits the individual.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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