Paula McKee

Paula McKee is a counsellor who emphasises attachment-informed and client-centred work. She holds BACP accreditation, and draws on 14 years of experience supporting people through relationship strain, loss and major life changes. Her style is warm and attentive, with a focus on helping people feel understood and safer in their relationships.

Paula has worked across education, bereavement services and agency placements as well as in private practice. She has substantial experience with difficult family dynamics and with how early attachment patterns can show up in adulthood. She also works with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, grief, separation and issues connected to neurodiversity.

Her approach is trauma informed and gently paced. Sessions aim to offer a steady space to reflect, name experiences and slowly rebuild a sense of agency. She uses client-centred listening alongside attachment-focused thinking to help people make sense of past and present patterns.

Paula also uses a solution-focused way of working to set achievable goals and draw out practical steps from a person’s own resources. This can help with time-limited worries or concrete problems such as sleep, parenting pressures or career decisions.

She is sensitive to cultural difference and to the challenges of migration, having lived experience of leaving her country of birth. Sessions are offered in England and scheduled around midweek and evening availability, so readers should check current times before booking.

How Paula’s approaches adapt to online counselling

Attachment-Based Therapy views relationships as central to wellbeing and looks at how early bonds affect current patterns. In practice this means noticing how people relate, naming interaction habits and gently testing new ways of connecting to ease relationship and intimacy worries.

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience without judgement. The therapist follows the client’s pace, reflects what is said and helps people clarify their feelings and choices, which supports work on self-esteem, anxiety and life transitions.

Solution-Focused Therapy is practical and goal-oriented. It helps identify small, manageable steps to shift a problem, emphasising a person’s own strengths and resources for change.

Paula approaches choice of method collaboratively. She will discuss options and tailor the mix of listening, attachment work or solution-focused tasks to a person’s needs and preferences. Finding the right approach is part of the work together rather than a fixed promise.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm available formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins or evening appointments. It also lets people focus on talking without leaving their day, while the therapist and client agree what works best for scheduling and practical access.