Paula Clifton
Grounded support for stress and life change
About Paula
Paula Clifton welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or big life changes. She writes in a direct, down-to-earth way and focuses on helping people speak openly about what they are living through. Paula is a BACP counsellor with three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
She works to make sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations are safe and non-judgemental, and Paula helps clients name what is most hard to cope with.
Background and approach
She also supports people struggling with sleep problems, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue and relationship or intimacy-related worries. Paula draws on client-centred therapy to keep the focus on each person’s experience. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to notice patterns of thinking and try small, manageable changes.
Hypnotherapy is also part of her toolkit when it may help someone access deeper relaxation or shift habits. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including parenting stresses, career pressures, chronic illness and body image worries. Paula has additional experience around adoption and foster care, ageing issues, autism and personality-related difficulties such as avoidant and antisocial traits.
Sessions aim to be practical and paced to the individual. Paula encourages small steps, realistic goals and regular check-ins so progress can be noticed. She invites people to begin with a short matching process and then book sessions that fit their schedule.
For people who have taken the first step already, Paula offers a calm, attentive presence and hands-on strategies to help manage day-to-day challenges and longer-term adjustment.
What Paula works with
How Paula works
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Sessions & fees
How Paula’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person rather than on labels. It means sessions are led by what matters most to the client and the counsellor listens closely to understand their experience and priorities. This approach can help when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk through feelings.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses simple exercises and experiments to test unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural changes that can ease anxiety, low mood or sleep problems.
Hypnotherapy is used to promote deep relaxation and support changes in habit or coping. It can be helpful for sleep, managing stress responses and reinforcing techniques learned in talk-based work.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula will discuss options collaboratively and adapt methods to match each person's goals, needs and preferences. The aim is to try approaches that feel useful and to review what is helping as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video suits conversations that need visual contact, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options add flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or mobility needs.
| 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
