Sharlin Paul
Calm, practical counselling for life’s difficulties
About Sharlin
Sharlin Paul draws on client-centred, cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic methods to help people feel steadier and more able to cope. She uses a warm, curious style to understand what has led to a problem and to build practical steps for change. Sharlin works in English and offers online formats to suit different needs.
She commonly supports people facing stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also helps with family-related strain, attachment and communication difficulties, and issues such as control, emptiness and forgiveness. Practical concerns like money, hoarding and social anxiety are also part of her focus. Across ten years of practice she has worked in a range of therapeutic settings and brings that breadth into each session.
Her British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy membership is listed as BACP. She describes her style as compassionate and non-judgemental and values the relationship between counsellor and client. Sessions balance talking through past patterns with tools to manage present problems.
Clients can expect reflective conversation, practical strategies and suggestions for exercises to use between sessions. Sharlin aims to co-create clear goals and steps that feel manageable. She accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
The therapy subscription can be cancelled at any time and fees vary with location and therapist availability.
What Sharlin works with
How Sharlin works
Listed by Sharlin among the ways they work.
Listed by Sharlin among the ways they work.
Listed by Sharlin among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding your experience and offering empathic listening. The counsellor follows your lead, helps you name what matters and supports you to find your own solutions; this can help with anxiety, low self-worth and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers concrete strategies to test unhelpful thoughts and change behaviours, which can be useful for stress, panic, depression and social anxiety.
Psychodynamic Therapy explores how past experiences and unconscious patterns affect current life. It can shed light on recurring relationship problems, attachment issues and repeated behaviours so you can make different choices.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and day-to-day needs and then recommend a path. That decision is made together and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be simpler to schedule; live chat and text-based messaging work for short check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility to work in ways that suit each person’s routine and comfort.
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
