Paula Howel
Calm, practical support for everyday struggles
About Paula
Paula Howel welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck or unsure how to move forward. She makes space for worries about mood, stress, grief and change, and aims to help clients find clearer ways to cope and make choices. Paula works in English and Welsh and draws on seven years of professional experience to shape each conversation.
Her style is open and non-judgemental. Sessions often begin by listening closely to what matters most to the client, then finding simple, practical steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses approaches that help people notice unhelpful patterns, test new behaviours and develop a kinder relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings. Paula has worked with people facing anxiety, depression, anger and sleep problems, as well as those dealing with addictions, relationship strain, parenting pressures and career decisions.
She also supports people managing neurodiversity-related challenges, attachment concerns and complex mood conditions such as bipolar or disruptive mood dysregulation. Her background includes practice in the United Kingdom and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That membership is recorded as BACP in her credentials.
Sessions can take the form of video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text messaging according to client preference. Paula aims to help people set small goals, build coping skills and make choices that feel personally meaningful.
What Paula works with
How Paula works
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Listed by Paula among the ways they work.
Listed by Paula among the ways they work.
Listed by Paula among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Paula’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without being driven by them and choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, low mood and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses practical exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns, which is helpful for anxiety, depression and sleeping problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Paula will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. That choice is reviewed as therapy progresses so the plan fits what actually helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text messaging to suit different routines. Video is useful for a typical therapy hour, phone can be better when bandwidth is low, live chat works for brief check-ins and text messaging helps keep up regular contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and travel while still working with registered or accredited professionals and therapists.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Welsh
