Paula Spencer-Snell, NCPS

Paula Spencer-Snell is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression and self-esteem struggles. She works with individuals who are coping with life changes and relationship worries. Paula uses plain talk and steady support to make starting therapy feel manageable.

She draws on several ways of working to match what each person needs. Sessions are collaborative and aim to build small, practical steps that fit into everyday life. Paula pays attention to emotional patterns that keep problems repeating, and to how thoughts and behaviours affect mood.

With four years of experience and NCPS listed as a credential, Paula combines person-centred listening with targeted techniques. That mix helps people who feel stuck to try new approaches and notice progress. She also addresses issues such as chronic pain, illness and disability, caregiver stress, body image and feelings of isolation.

In sessions Paula helps people untangle attachment and abandonment worries, cope with endings like divorce, and work through guilt, shame or past abuse. She uses solution-focused conversations when clients want concrete plans, and psychodynamic ideas when exploring long-standing patterns. Mindfulness tools and practical cognitive strategies are available for anxiety and mood concerns.

Paula works in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. For those ready to begin she asks clients to use the site's Start Therapy process to match and schedule appointments according to availability.

Approaches that translate to online counselling

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgement; it helps when someone needs a steady, respectful space to talk through worries and decisions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical tools to reduce anxiety and lift mood; it is often used for stress, anxiety and mood concerns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding exercises that can reduce reactivity and help with chronic stress and low mood.

Choosing an approach is a shared process. Paula will work together with the client to find which methods suit their goals and preferences, and may blend approaches as the work progresses. That means the plan can change if something is not helping.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. It can save travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, and mean people can attend from whatever location suits them best. The specific session formats Paula offers are not listed here, so please confirm current options before booking. Many people find remote counselling helpful for keeping continuity during illness, managing treatment alongside other commitments, and keeping therapy consistent during life transitions.