Paula Talling
Calm practical therapy for stress and trauma
About Paula
Paula Talling offers calm, practical support for people under stress and feeling overwhelmed. She helps with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, anger and the lasting effects of trauma and abuse. Paula listens without judging and works at the client’s pace to make small, realistic changes.
Paula uses a mix of practical and exploratory approaches. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Client-centred work keeps the client’s perspective central, so sessions follow what matters most to the person.
Background and approach
Somatic techniques bring attention to bodily signals, which can help when emotions feel stuck. Her background includes six years of counselling practice and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Paula combines talking work with simple mindfulness and body-focused exercises.
These tools aim to ease panic, reduce reactivity and improve sleep in everyday life. In sessions Paula helps people understand unhelpful habits and develop new ways of coping. That may mean trying grounding exercises, practising calmer responses, or looking at painful memories at a manageable pace.
She encourages clear communication and supports people who want to build stronger boundaries and healthier relationships. Therapy can be brief problem-solving work or a longer process of looking at deeper patterns. Paula guides each person to set realistic goals and tracks progress along the way.
Her style is warm, steady and practical, aimed at helping people feel safer in their own lives.
What Paula works with
How Paula works
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Sessions & fees
How Paula's approaches work online
Paula combines attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening and somatic techniques in online work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and can help with relationship issues, abandonment worries and attachment problems. Client-centred therapy keeps the client's experience at the centre, so the pace and topics follow what feels most important to the person. Somatic work pays attention to bodily sensations and simple movement or grounding techniques that can reduce panic and help process trauma.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Paula will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and she adjusts methods collaboratively. That means together the client and therapist decide whether to focus on short-term coping skills, deeper exploratory work or a combination of both.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of grounding exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing support or when a shorter, more flexible contact works better around work and family commitments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping consistent contact with a registered professional.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
