About Paula
Paula Rea is a BACP registered member and an NCPS accredited member who practises as a counsellor in the United Kingdom. She has four years of professional experience and focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Paula aims to make first steps feel manageable and respectful for anyone who is worried about asking for help.
Paula works in a collaborative, down-to-earth way. Sessions are a place to talk through thoughts and feelings without judgement.
How Paula works
She listens for the practical patterns that make everyday life harder and helps people learn small, usable strategies to cope better. Her approach draws on a mix of methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas. That means Paula helps people notice unhelpful thinking, clarify what matters to them and rebuild trusting ways of relating.
She adapts techniques to suit each person rather than following a strict script. Paula also supports people with issues such as grief, addiction, sleep and eating concerns, parenting stress, chronic health challenges and work-related strain. She pays attention to how past attachments and patterns affect present behaviour and choices.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Paula works with each person to set achievable goals and practical steps. The focus is on steady progress and building skills that fit into daily life.
Paula lists 8 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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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 | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Paula's approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that matter to them, useful for anxiety, low mood and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns, helpful for anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to early relationship patterns and how they show up now, which can help with intimacy, trust and relationship difficulties.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Paula will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working together. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow more conversational depth and visual cues, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or better when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suits shorter, frequent contact or when writing feels easier. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family life or other commitments while keeping the focus on practical change and steady progress.
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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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