Paula De Souza
Compassionate, person-focused counselling
About Paula
Paula De Souza is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She has four years of experience and focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief and relationship concerns. Paula uses a warm, person-focused style and aims to make each session feel manageable and straightforward.
She often works with people coping with trauma and abuse, health challenges, caring responsibilities, and the strains that come with major life changes.
Background and approach
Paula also supports those dealing with anger, eating and body-image concerns, low self-esteem and career questions. Her additional areas include issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties and the complexities of chronic illness and caregiving stress. Paula’s main approaches are Client-Centred Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy.
In practice this means she listens closely, follows what matters most to the client, and looks at how past experiences may affect present feelings and behaviours. Sessions are paced to suit the individual and focus on practical ways to cope day to day.
People can expect a calm and non-judgemental space where they can talk through what’s troubling them and work out small, realistic steps forward. Paula pays attention to the relationship in therapy, seeing it as the engine for change while also addressing specific problems and goals. She offers sessions in English and is available for international clients.
Paula provides appointments through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
What Paula works with
How Paula works
Listed by Paula among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
How Paula’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centred Therapy places the client at the centre of the work. The counsellor listens closely, follows the person’s lead and helps them clarify what matters most. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, self-esteem and relationship concerns.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that come from past experiences and how they show up now. It helps people make sense of repeated feelings or reactions and can be helpful for trauma, attachment issues and long-standing emotional patterns.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Paula will collaborate with each client to choose and adapt approaches based on their needs, goals and preferences. The first few sessions are often used to agree on a plan and try methods that feel most helpful.
Online sessions make therapy more flexible. Video calls are close to face-to-face contact and suit in-depth conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick exchanges or ongoing written reflection without being on camera. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments and can make it easier to maintain continuity of care across locations.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
