Paula Talling, BACP

Paula Talling is a licensed counsellor in England with 6 years of professional experience, committed to helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship and family difficulties, grief, sleep problems, anger, and life changes. She works from an integrative perspective, blending person-centered principles with trauma-informed and somatic techniques to address both emotional patterns and bodily responses. Paula also draws on attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas, and uses hypnotherapy where appropriate, tailoring her approach to each person's needs.

She believes early life experiences shape how adults relate to themselves and others, and she brings that understanding into clinical work to explore attachment, abandonment and communication patterns. Her additional focus areas include self-esteem and body image concerns, codependency, dissociation, feelings of emptiness, guilt and shame, panic and self-harm, and difficulties such as avoidant personality traits and control issues. Mindfulness and somatic processing are used alongside more traditional talking therapies to support regulation and increased self-awareness.

Paula aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be voiced and examined. She encourages people to take steps toward change and offers support and empowerment throughout the therapeutic process. Paula holds the BACP credential - the professional association for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom - and is currently accepting clients in the United Kingdom.