Paul Weeden
Practical, down-to-earth support for everyday life
About Paul
Paul Weeden offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low mood. He speaks plainly and helps clients break problems into small, manageable steps. Sessions aim to rebuild confidence, strengthen coping skills and make everyday life feel a little easier.
Paul draws on 15 years of experience as a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom. He focuses on what a person wants to change and helps them set simple, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Techniques include talking through patterns, trying new coping strategies and practising grounding and breathing exercises that can be used between sessions. Many clients find the work includes looking at routines, daily habits and pressures from work or study. Paul encourages better balance between work and life, and supports people who want to improve sleep, motivation or general wellbeing.
He also offers guidance for those dealing with grief, addiction concerns and major life changes. Therapy sessions combine short-term practical tools with deeper reflection when needed. Paul uses client-centred listening alongside cognitive approaches and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses.
He also draws on psychodynamic ideas to explore past patterns that keep repeating. Paul works with a wide range of issues including relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, ADHD-related struggles and compassion fatigue. He aims to create a non-judgemental space where people can test new ways of coping and build healthier routines.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that suit them. Paul accepts clients internationally and runs sessions in English.
What Paul works with
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Sessions & fees
How Paul’s methods work online
Paul uses client-centred work to start, which means listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and sets the pace for practical change.He also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, to spot unhelpful thinking and try new responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and problems that respond well to step-by-step behavioural changes.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Paul will discuss different approaches and agree a plan based on goals, preferences and how someone responds in early sessions. That makes the work collaborative and adjustable as things evolve.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can fit a busy day and text or chat options let people check-in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges. These formats help people access therapy from different locations and schedules while keeping therapy consistent with their daily life.
| 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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
