Paulina Szot
Compassionate integrative counsellor for life changes
About Paulina
Paulina Szot helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and big life changes. She explains things simply and offers steady support during difficult moments. Paulina greets people with warmth and without judgement.
She is based in the United Kingdom and works in English and Polish. Paulina is an integrative counsellor who blends mind, body, soul and emotional ways of working. That means she draws on different techniques to suit each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer understanding of feelings, and building everyday coping skills. People come to her with problems such as panic attacks, feelings of emptiness, family of origin issues, codependency, or struggles with control and communication. She also supports those facing chronic pain, illness or disability and those dealing with guilt, shame, or abandonment wounds.
Conversations aim to make difficult feelings easier to bear and to identify small changes that reduce distress. Paulina has three years of counselling experience and is recognised by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She frames her work as conversation-based support rather than medical treatment.
Clients who live outside the UK should note that qualifications may not be recognised in their country and services are offered as wellbeing support in that context. Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She encourages people to set the pace and focuses on what matters to them.
Sessions are practical and compassionate, helping people move toward clearer thinking and steadier days.
What Paulina works with
Sessions & fees
How Paulina uses practical approaches in online counselling
Paulina describes her practice as integrative, drawing on established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to suit each person. One common way is to combine talking therapies with attention to bodily experience - noticing stress in the body and learning simple exercises to reduce tension and panic. This helps with anxiety, panic attacks and ongoing stress.Another strand focuses on processing painful experiences and grief by creating a careful narrative of what happened and how it feels now. This kind of work helps people who carry trauma, loss, guilt or shame to make sense of their reactions and find manageable steps forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Paulina discusses options with each person and collaborates to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. She adapts techniques as things change so the plan remains useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to access support. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for ongoing reflections, quick check-ins, or when someone prefers writing over talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life or busy days, while still getting consistent therapeutic support.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish