Paula Byrne
Grounded counsellor offering steady, practical support
About Paula
Paula Byrne draws on six years of professional practice in the UK to support people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and related concerns. She is a BACP counsellor who aims to make first steps feel manageable. Paula writes plainly and listens closely to help people begin to untangle things that feel overwhelming.
She works from an approach that values genuine listening and honesty. Sessions are relaxed and paced to the individual.
Background and approach
Paula focuses on helping people find the strengths they already have and use them to meet current challenges. Her background includes work in a GP surgery, a homeless hostel and with the Samaritans. Earlier in her career she worked as a hairdresser and barber, roles that taught her the value of attentive listening and human connection.
Those experiences shape how she engages with people now. Paula helps with common life difficulties such as grief, addictions, phobias, PTSD, and family problems. She also offers support for more specific concerns like attachment and abandonment issues, body image, cancer-related stress, and communication problems.
Therapy sessions are adapted to each person. Paula aims to move at a pace that feels comfortable and to offer a non-judgemental, relaxed space for talking. She encourages practical steps and small changes so people can feel steadier between sessions.
What Paula works with
How Paula works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand trust, closeness and fears of abandonment, and can be useful for relationship or intimacy concerns. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the person's pace; it helps people feel heard and build confidence to tackle difficult choices. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect and offers simple techniques to change unhelpful patterns, often useful for anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula will discuss different ways of working and try methods that fit the person's goals and preferences. Together they decide what to try and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging can fit around busy days. These options make it easier to keep continuity and fit therapy into everyday life while exploring the approaches above with a registered or accredited professional.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
