About Paula
Paula Saby is an AHPRA-registered counsellor with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety and to build confidence. Paula creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can speak honestly about what is worrying them.
She uses short, clear conversations to help clients find what matters to them and to take small steps forward. Paula draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts without getting ruled by them.
Background and approach
She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support change and Solution-Focused Therapy to find real-world steps that work. Paula has worked across many areas related to relationships and self-worth. This includes parenting concerns, issues connected to LGBT identity, and the everyday strain of caregiving.
She also helps people handle feelings of guilt, shame, isolation and the fallout from separation and commitment problems. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Paula listens, asks useful questions and helps people set achievable goals.
Many clients work on improving communication, managing control issues, or rebuilding a sense of life purpose. Paula works with adults in Australia and conducts sessions in English. She encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed to take the first step and is ready to support people as they explore their next move.
How Paula’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. Online ACT sessions often focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts and choosing actions that move life in a meaningful direction.Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to build readiness for change. In remote sessions this approach supports people to find their own reasons to shift behaviours and to set realistic next steps.
Paula will work with clients to decide which approach, or combination of approaches, fits best. She treats that as a shared process - goals, preferences and practical needs shape the plan. If a different emphasis seems more helpful later, the focus can change together.
Online therapy offers flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversations with visual connection. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging can make it easier to share thoughts between sessions and to keep momentum during busy periods.
These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, parenting or other commitments while still working through anxiety, stress and relationship concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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