Celia Paul
Calm, practical support for stress and relationships
About Celia
Celia Paul helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low mood. She meets individuals who are struggling with relationship difficulties, grief, or low self-esteem. Her manner is calm and direct, aiming to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Celia has 12 years of professional experience working with common mental health concerns. She listens for practical patterns that keep problems going, and looks for small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
She believes people carry strengths that can be used to move through hard times. Her work has included support for depression, mood disorders, panic and phobic reactions, and obsessive-compulsive difficulties. She also helps people dealing with pregnancy and childbirth challenges, postpartum depression, and the effects of infidelity, divorce and separation.
Celia addresses family of origin issues, communication and control problems, guilt, shame and forgiveness. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that fit into a person’s life. The emphasis is on coping skills and new ways of relating to thoughts and feelings.
Clients can expect a collaborative approach in which the counsellor and client plan next steps together. Celia prefers straightforward language and short-term strategies when these suit the person’s aims. She offers support for navigating change and rebuilding confidence over time.
What Celia works with
Sessions & fees
Practical therapeutic techniques for online support
Two evidence-based approaches often used in this kind of work are behavioural strategies and structured talking therapies. Behavioural strategies focus on changing actions that keep distress going, for example building routines, tackling avoidance, and practising small exposures for fears or panic. Structured talking therapies focus on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing different ways of responding to difficult emotions.Another helpful approach is skills-based coping. This teaches simple tools for mood regulation, anxiety management and improving communication. These tools are tailored to the person’s daily life so they feel usable between sessions and build confidence over time.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has and hasn’t helped before. Together the client and therapist decide which techniques to try and review progress as they go.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, so people can pick what fits their routine. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support between calls. The range of formats makes it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
