Paula Caffrey
Experienced BACP counsellor for complex issues
About Paula
Paula Caffrey helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. She is a BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP (Accred) with twenty years of experience in counselling. Paula writes plainly and compassionately, and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for anyone thinking about support.
Paula spent time working in charities and the NHS before moving into independent practice in 2010. That background includes roles supporting people with substance misuse, sexual abuse, and staff counselling in a healthcare setting.
Background and approach
She also served in the Royal Navy for over five years before training as a counsellor. In sessions Paula creates a warm, non-judgemental space. She listens first and follows the client’s agenda.
Her style is adaptable rather than prescriptive, so she changes pace and focus to suit the person in front of her. Her work draws on person-centred ideas alongside psychodynamic thinking and cognitive behavioural techniques. She has also integrated Internal Family Systems, which she finds useful for trauma, addictions and self-sabotaging behaviour.
Paula uses everyday language and practical reflections rather than jargon. Paula has experience with a wide range of concerns including loss, life transitions, low self-esteem, relationship and communication problems, abandonment and attachment issues, dissociation, and infidelity. She supports people through recovery, inner child work, spiritual awakening and psychedelic integration when it fits their goals.
To begin, people are invited to make a straightforward match and schedule sessions according to availability. Paula aims to empower clients as they work towards clearer choices and small, steady changes.
What Paula works with
How Paula works
Listed by Paula among the ways they work.
Listed by Paula among the ways they work.
Listed by Paula among the ways they work.
Listed by Paula among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person in front of the therapist. It helps people who need a compassionate space to talk things through and make their own decisions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, stress and some addictive behaviours.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula will discuss different options and together they will decide what feels most useful. This is a collaborative process that can change as needs and goals evolve during therapy.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to keep momentum between meetings. It can reduce travel time, allow quieter check-ins that need less time, and make it easier to attend from a familiar environment. The specific session formats offered should be confirmed before booking, as details depend on the therapist's current arrangements. Registered or accredited professionals guide the choice of approach and practical setup so sessions work around everyday 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
