Paula Reilly, BACP

Paula Reilly is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years' experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting concerns and grief. Paula also supports people facing trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and major life changes.

Paula uses straightforward talking, listening and practical tools. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past links affect present relationships. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Narrative and mindfulness approaches help people place difficult events into a clearer frame and find calmer ways to cope.

Her background includes work with people affected by complex trauma. That experience informs how she helps clients manage strong emotions, anger and intimacy-related issues. She also offers support around adoption and foster care related worries, blended family concerns and caregiver stress.

Sessions focus on practical outcomes as well as understanding feelings. Paula encourages adults who are juggling parenting, work and caring responsibilities to identify small, manageable changes. She aims to help people improve communication, cope with loneliness or isolation, and address relationship ruptures without promising a set result.

To begin, she asks people to say what matters to them and which problems feel most urgent. From there she and the client decide which approaches make sense and plan the next steps together.

How Paula’s approaches fit with online counselling