Paul Dent
Support for anxiety, trauma and relationships
About Paul
Paul Dent helps people facing anxiety, stress, addictions, and relationship struggles. He offers practical support for trauma, intimacy concerns and low mood. He also assists with sleep and eating issues, grief, career questions, and life transitions.
Paul brings 12 years of experience and BACP registration to his work in the United Kingdom. Paul works in a straightforward, respectful way. He treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals agreed together and reviewed as therapy progresses. That makes the work feel manageable and focused. He uses a mix of approaches to suit different problems.
Cognitive behavioural techniques help with unhelpful thinking and anxious behaviours. Client-centred methods put the person’s experience at the heart of sessions and shape how conversations unfold. Paul also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning during big changes.
For relationship concerns he uses elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and connection. Motivational Interviewing supports changes such as cutting down addictive behaviours. Paul has supported people with a wide range of issues including ADHD, bipolar and chronic health-related concerns.
He also works with matters such as attachment difficulties, codependency and kink-related topics. His style is calm, direct and collaborative, aiming to give practical steps as well as space to talk.
What Paul works with
How Paul works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on understanding the person's perspective and creating a supportive environment. In online sessions this looks like warm, attentive listening and helping clients lead the pace and topics of conversation, which suits work on identity, self-esteem and life decisions.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Online CBT often uses structured exercises and homework that can be shared in messages or discussed on video, and it can help with anxiety, insomnia, low mood and eating concerns.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change, for example with addictions or health behaviours. It is a conversational style that fits well with brief check-ins by phone or chat as well as longer video sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and agree a plan together, adjusting methods as needed. That collaborative process helps match techniques to the person's situation and keeps therapy practical and relevant.
Online formats offer flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat suits focused check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, travel or fluctuating energy levels while keeping the focus on progress.
| 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
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
