Paula Clifton, BACP
3 years in practice
Paula Clifton is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and life changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 398167 · expires November 2026
- Years in practice
- 3
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Paula
Paula Clifton is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and life changes. She works with concerns like grief, sleep problems, low self-esteem and relationship or intimacy challenges. Paula makes a point of offering a calm, accepting space so people can speak openly about difficult thoughts and feelings.
She uses a blend of approaches to match each person’s needs. Paula draws on client-centred talking, practical ideas from cognitive behavioural therapy, and hypnotherapy techniques to support relaxation and habit change.
Background and approach
These methods are chosen together with the client rather than imposed. Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth. Paula aims to break worries into manageable steps and to identify small changes that make daily life easier.
She also pays attention to how patterns of thinking affect mood, sleep and behaviour. Paula holds BACP registration, which she keeps as part of her professional standing in the United Kingdom. She has three years of professional practice and continues to develop her skills through ongoing work with clients.
People can expect practical tools as well as space to be heard. Paula encourages questions about the process and discusses simple goals at the start of work together. If someone wants to try different techniques, she adapts the approach to fit their situation.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Paula lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Paula names
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Online support
Practical therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Paula uses client-centred therapy to prioritise the person’s experience. This approach focuses on listening, understanding and following the client’s pace so they feel heard and respected. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, provides straightforward tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours that can ease anxiety, improve sleep and lift mood. Hypnotherapy is used as a supportive technique to promote relaxed states and help with habits, sleep and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Paula will talk through options and adapt methods based on what each person needs, their goals and their preferences. The process is collaborative so adjustments can be made as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions suit those who want face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in and messaging supports people who prefer writing or need flexible times. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping continuity of care with a registered professional.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Paula help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, sleep problems, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting strain, career stress and depression, among other worries.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a warm, client-centred manner and mixes in practical techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and hypnotherapy to help with relaxation and changing unhelpful patterns.
How much experience does she have?
Paula has three years of professional experience working with people on a range of common mental health and life concerns.
What credentials and location apply to Paula?
She is registered with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is able to work with international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on the client’s preference.
How are sessions charged?
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