Paulette Shelley
Supportive online counsellor for trauma and relationships
About Paulette
Paulette Shelley helps people facing relationship problems, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem and depression. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through painful feelings and find clearer ways forward. Paulette uses straightforward language and a warm presence to make hard conversations easier to start.
She works online with conversations shaped by each person's needs. Sessions can look at where difficult emotions come from and how they affect daily life.
Background and approach
Paulette focuses on practical change as well as understanding, so people can try different ways of coping between meetings. Paulette draws on Client-Centred Therapy, which puts the client's perspective at the heart of the work. She also uses elements of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, helping people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours.
These approaches are blended to match the issue and the pace each person prefers. Her experience includes a broad range of concerns such as attachment difficulties, domestic violence, substance problems, obsessive-compulsive behaviours, panic attacks, self-harm, and issues tied to illness or bereavement. She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, forgiveness and finding life purpose.
Paulette holds BACP, which identifies her as a practitioner within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She offers sessions in English and can work with international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to suit their needs.
What Paulette works with
How Paulette works
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Sessions & fees
Online approaches that focus on understanding and change
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the centre of the sessions. The counsellor offers empathy and respect while helping the client make sense of feelings and choices, which can be useful for relationship issues and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical steps to reduce anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive behaviours or low mood.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Paulette will work with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and personal style, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and have fuller conversations, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, written reflections or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel commitments and let people try formats that suit their day-to-day 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
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
