About Paul
Paul Campbell offers a client-centred way of working that starts with listening. He brings 11 years of experience and membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). He aims to help people feel heard and to find practical ways forward for problems that feel overwhelming.
Paul commonly helps people facing stress and anxiety, challenges with addiction, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. He also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment wounds, codependency, and issues with control or commitment.
How Paul works
He will talk through what matters most to each person and take things at a workable pace. In sessions Paul uses a mix of approaches tailored to the person in front of him. He draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns that repeat in relationships.
He uses cognitive behavioural methods to spot thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic thinking help when motivation or past history are central to the issue. People work with Paul to set practical goals and try small changes between sessions.
He encourages honest conversation about setbacks as well as progress. Work tends to be steady and collaborative, not rushed. Paul offers sessions in English and works with people in the United Kingdom.
He asks new clients to complete a short questionnaire so he can match their needs and plan the first appointment.
Paul lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Paul works with
The areas below are the ones Paul selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approach-driven therapy online and what to expect
Paul blends attachment-based work, client-centred listening, and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people address relationship patterns, emotional distress, and unhelpful thinking. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps with issues like trust, abandonment, and repeating patterns. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding, giving people space to tell their story and find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps to identify thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and to try practical experiments to change them.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paul will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences and will adapt methods together. That means sessions can shift over time as new priorities emerge, and the plan is agreed collaboratively rather than imposed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from anywhere, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit around work breaks, live chat offers a shorter real-time check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into everyday life while keeping the focus on clear, practical progress.
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