About Paula
Paula Spencer-Snell offers calm, direct support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. She introduces gentle, practical steps so clients can manage day-to-day pressures and feel steadier. Paula is based in the United Kingdom and works in English.
Paula uses a collaborative style. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on skills that can be used between meetings. Conversations are straightforward and paced to suit each person’s comfort level.
How Paula works
Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, and she also helps with self-esteem, isolation and coping with life changes. Other common concerns she addresses include chronic pain or illness, attachment and abandonment worries, and issues such as guilt, shame and forgiveness. Paula draws on a mix of approaches to match the situation.
She combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. This means sessions can include exploring patterns, learning practical strategies, and building awareness of thoughts and feelings. People often come for help with mood difficulties, money-related stress, midlife questions or the fallout of separation.
Paula aims to make each session useful and focused on the next small step forward. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. Costs vary with location and the service subscription in use, which can be cancelled at any time.
Paula lists 7 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
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | 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 online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on active listening and understanding the person's experience. Sessions give space for someone to tell their story while the counsellor reflects and helps identify what matters most, which can help with stress, low mood and relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and simple experiments to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula will explore goals, preferences and what has helped before, then agree a plan with the client. This collaborative process can mix listening, practical skills and short exercises that fit day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let a person and counsellor meet face to face, phone sessions can be faster to arrange or better when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments.
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