About Paula
Paula Reilly is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. She supports people facing grief, depression, anger and life changes. Paula also works with parenting concerns, intimacy issues and the after-effects of trauma and abuse.
She trained in counselling and holds a Bachelor of Honours degree. Paula brings three years of experience and a calm, non-judgemental style to sessions. She aims to create a welcoming space where someone can tell their story and be heard.
Background and approach
Paula uses a range of approaches to fit each person’s needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape expectations now. She also uses cognitive behavioural strategies to help spot unhelpful thinking and build practical coping skills.
Narrative and mindfulness techniques appear in her work too, helping people rethink unhelpful stories about themselves and learn ways to be present when emotions run high. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps and skills that can be practised between meetings. People meet Paula to make real changes in daily life.
She invites curiosity about which approach will suit best and treats therapy as a collaborative process. If someone is ready to explore their story and try different tools, Paula can walk alongside them as they work towards clearer goals.
How Paula’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current feelings and patterns. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns, name the needs behind them and practise different responses in day-to-day life. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours. In remote sessions the therapist and client can work together on simple experiments, homework and thought records to reduce anxiety and manage mood.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Paula treats this as a collaborative process and will discuss options based on a person’s concerns, goals and preferences. Together they will try approaches and adapt them until something feels helpful.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people read non-verbal cues and keep a face-to-face feel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, shorter reflections or when a written format feels more comfortable. These options help therapy fit around work, parenting and busy schedules while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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