About Paula
Paula Barlow uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people facing difficult life moments. She is listed with NCPS and brings nine years of experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, depression and addictive behaviours. Paula writes plainly and aims to make each session feel straightforward and useful.
Her work often addresses grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and the after-effects of trauma and abuse. She also helps with sleep and eating concerns, low self-esteem, anger, and career or life changes.
How Paula works
Practical tools and calm conversation are regular parts of sessions. Paula combines client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural methods to spot patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going. She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people manage strong emotions and hypnotherapy where appropriate to support habit change.
Some sessions draw on psychodynamic ideas to look at past experiences that shape present responses. Her background includes nine years of practice in the United Kingdom and registration with NCPS. She offers a straightforward, respectful stance and focuses on what clients want to change.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit each person. Paula is comfortable helping people tackle a wide range of concerns from addiction and family problems to parenting stress, fertility-related worries, and issues linked to adoption or attachment. She aims to make therapy a practical, hopeful step toward feeling better and managing life more easily.
Paula lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Paula works with
The areas below are the ones Paula 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist offers attentive, non-judgemental space so people can work through what matters. This approach helps when someone needs to make sense of feelings or decide on next steps.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues and coping with change.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. It can be used alongside other approaches when strong feelings or stress are getting in the way of day-to-day life.
Paula treats finding the right method as a collaborative process. She will discuss different approaches and help decide what fits the person's goals and preferences. Together they review progress and adjust methods when needed to make sure sessions stay relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging suits quick check-ins or ongoing written support. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare or travel and to keep continuity when life gets busy.
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