About Paula
Paula Clements helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression and addictions. She also supports those facing relationship and family challenges, parenting strain, sleeping and eating problems, career worries, ADHD and major life changes. Paula is named up front so readers know who they would meet.
Paula works in a straightforward, respectful way. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and builds on their strengths.
How Paula works
Sessions aim to make difficulties easier to manage rather than rely on technical jargon or long lectures. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centred practice and psychodynamic thinking. That means she uses values-based exercises, attention to important relationships, warm listening and gentle attention to past experiences that still affect daily life.
Paula has four years of professional experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. She practises from New York and offers sessions in English. Her background includes supporting people with a wide range of concerns, including complex issues such as abandonment, attachment problems and dissociation.
Typical sessions can include short practical tasks, guided conversation about what matters most, and space to reflect on past patterns. The aim is to help people find clearer ways forward, cope with strong emotions and make choices that fit their values.
Paula lists 4 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Paula's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and practising small actions that align with those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions, and helps people rework patterns that cause pain in close connections.Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Paula will talk through options and try methods that suit your needs, goals and preferences. Decisions about focus and technique are made collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different circumstances. Video is useful for longer conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments and mean people can access registered or accredited professionals from where they are.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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