Paolo De Luca
Thoughtful psychodynamic psychotherapy for adults
About Paolo
Paolo De Luca is a psychodynamic psychotherapist with eight years of experience supporting adults with a wide range of life challenges. He works in English and Italian and offers sessions in the United Kingdom and to international clients. Paolo aims to provide a calm, respectful space where people can speak openly about what worries them.
Paolo helps people with relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, anxiety and depression.
Background and approach
He also supports those coping with grief, panic attacks, eating issues, addictions and major life changes. He pays attention to family of origin issues and personality concerns such as avoidant or dependent traits. In sessions Paolo listens closely and encourages people to notice patterns that affect their everyday lives.
He helps clients bring to light feelings and memories that might be influencing current behaviour. The focus is on building awareness and greater self-understanding to support lasting change. Paolo combines client-centred listening with psychodynamic ways of thinking about past experiences and current relationships.
He offers open-ended psychotherapy when that suits the person, and can adapt how they work together based on individual needs. Practical goals and reflection are balanced in the therapy process. Appointments can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, and sessions follow a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling is arranged according to availability.
What Paolo works with
How Paolo works
Listed by Paolo among the ways they work.
Listed by Paolo among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Online psychodynamic and client-centred work
Paolo draws on client-centred methods that prioritise careful listening and the person’s own pace. This approach focuses on understanding what matters most to the individual and supporting them to make choices that fit their life. It can help when someone wants straightforward, empathetic support for anxiety, low self-esteem or relationship concerns.He also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences and early relationships shape present feelings and behaviour. That way of working helps uncover repeating patterns, unresolved loss or relational issues that keep causing pain. Together the approaches allow both practical support and deeper exploration.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Paolo will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then adjust how sessions proceed. The partnership helps decide whether shorter-term practical work or longer open-ended exploration is the best fit.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging to give practical flexibility. Video brings face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quicker check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life or travel while working with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Italian
