Paula Spencer-Snell

Paula Spencer-Snell is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. She works with individuals who are coping with trauma, loss, low confidence and life changes. Paula aims to make the first step less daunting and offers a calm, listening presence to help people find steadier ground.

She uses a collaborative style that adapts to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on practical ways to manage difficult feelings, improve day-to-day coping and rebuild self-worth. Paula draws on conversational work alongside techniques that help challenge unhelpful thinking and notice patterns that hold people back.

Her background includes four years of practice and the NCPS credential, which appears with her name. Paula blends person-centred listening with goal-focused tools so sessions feel both warm and directed. She values simple, clear steps that people can try between meetings.

People bring a wide range of concerns, including abandonment or attachment worries, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, control issues, money worries and midlife questions. She also works with those navigating divorce and separation and the upheaval that follows.

Paula uses a mix of approaches such as cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness and psychodynamic thinking to help make sense of patterns. Her style aims to help people feel heard, build coping skills and move toward the changes they want in life.

How Paula’s approaches translate to online counselling

Paula commonly uses client-centred work, cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness in her sessions. Client-centred work focuses on listening and helping people feel understood, which can be useful when dealing with grief, loneliness or low confidence. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours, which can be helpful for anxiety, stress and mood problems. Mindfulness practice teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and support coping during stressful times.

Choosing an approach is part of the work together. Paula aims to collaborate with each person to decide what feels most helpful. She will check in about goals, try different techniques and adjust the plan based on what the client finds useful.

The practical benefit of online therapy is fitting sessions into everyday life - shorter travel time, easier scheduling around work or caregiving, and the ability to keep continuity when circumstances change. The specific session formats available with this therapist are not listed here, so please confirm current options before booking. Registered or accredited professionals often use online sessions to keep therapy manageable alongside day-to-day responsibilities.