Paula Bantick-Ward
Practical, person-centred counselling for life's pressures
About Paula
Paula Bantick-Ward is a counsellor with eight years' experience offering accessible, practical support for people facing life’s pressures. She aims to make counselling affordable and convenient, including online and telephone sessions. Paula listens without judgement and helps people find clearer ways to manage feelings and decisions.
She works in a person-centred way, so sessions focus on the client’s experience and priorities. That means Paula will be genuine and empathic, and will not direct the conversation.
Background and approach
She helps people name their emotions and explore what matters to them so they can move forward. Paula also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other evidence-informed techniques when they suit a person’s goals. She may introduce structured exercises, journaling or metaphors to help make sense of patterns and reactions.
The approach is flexible and practical rather than fixed. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, eating concerns, self-esteem, anger and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include attachment, abandonment, adoption and carer stress among others.
Paula is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP. She works under their ethical framework and receives clinical supervision. Sessions can be arranged for people in the United Kingdom and internationally, delivered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
What Paula works with
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Sessions & fees
How Paula's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can help when life feels overwhelming or stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional reactions, helping people understand patterns and build different ways of relating.The choice of approach is part of the work. Paula will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals. She explains options, tries things out, and adapts the way she works as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit into busy lives. Video lets people read body language and have deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or reflective writing between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with alongside everyday 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
