About Paul
Paul Dent helps people facing anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma, relationship and intimacy difficulties, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar. He supports those dealing with grief, parenting strain, sleeping and eating problems, anger, low self-esteem, and work or career challenges. He also addresses ADHD, compassion fatigue and coping with major life changes.
Paul works from the view that people know their own stories best. He listens without judgement and helps people identify strengths they can use to move forward.
How Paul works
Sessions focus on practical steps as well as thinking differently about difficult patterns. His approach blends gentle, person-focused listening with structured techniques when useful. He draws on client-centred ideas to follow each person’s lead, and uses cognitive behavioural tools to tackle unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Motivational interviewing helps when change feels hard to start. Paul has 12 years of professional experience in counselling work and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He works with adults who want clear goals and realistic plans, while also making space to talk about feelings and history.
People can expect sessions that set simple, reviewable goals. Paul checks progress together and adapts plans if something is not working. The overall aim is to help people feel more in control and able to manage daily life.
Appointments are offered from the United Kingdom and sessions accept international clients. Conversations are tailored to each person, with an emphasis on honesty, practical steps and steady progress.
Paul lists 9 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.
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide remote sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding your experience and following what matters to you. It helps when you need someone who listens and reflects without pushing a set agenda.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and habit changes because it offers practical exercises and small experiments to try between sessions.
Motivational Interviewing helps when starting change feels difficult. It uses short conversations to build motivation and find reasons to move forward that matter to you.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Paul will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together you will decide which methods to try and adapt them as you go, so the plan fits your life.
Online sessions make that collaboration easier to sustain. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be a simpler fit when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging works well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, travel or busy days.
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