Paula Cleary
Calm, practical support for life changes
About Paula
Paula Cleary helps people who feel overwhelmed, stuck or unsure about next steps. She speaks plainly and aims to make conversations easy to follow. Paula introduces simple ways to understand what is happening and to decide what to try next.
Paula uses conversational, client-centred work to help people describe what matters to them. She focuses on what people want to change and listens for their strengths. Sessions are intended to be calm and straightforward so people can make small, useful moves forward.
Background and approach
She also brings ideas from existential therapy to look at meaning, choice and values. That can be helpful when big life questions, loss or emptiness make decisions feel heavy. Mindfulness tools are offered too, so people can practise being more present and reducing anxious thinking.
Solution-focused techniques are used to spot what is already working and build on it. Paula helps people identify practical steps they can try between sessions. The emphasis is on manageable goals rather than long lists of tasks.
Paula has 16 years of experience and is a BACP member. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, trauma and family difficulties. Sessions are available in English and Paula accepts international clients for online work.
What Paula works with
How Paula works
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Listed by Paula among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
How Paula's approaches work online
Paula uses client-centred work that focuses on what the person brings to each session. This approach means the conversation follows the person's priorities and pace, which suits people who want to feel heard and understood before making changes.She also offers solution-focused techniques that look for what already helps and build on it. These brief, goal-oriented ideas help when someone wants practical steps to try between sessions, such as coping strategies for anxiety or actions to improve communication.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process and Paula treats it as a team effort. She will talk about options, check what feels useful and adapt methods to fit a person's goals and preferences rather than prescribing one fixed route.
Online work offers flexibility in how sessions take place. People can meet by video for a fuller face-to-face conversation, choose phone calls when bandwidth is limited, or use live chat and text messages for quicker check-ins and shorter moments of support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel, and to try different ways of working to see what helps most.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
