Paula Smyton, BACP

Paula Smyton is a UK-based psychodynamic counsellor, integrative practitioner and qualified teacher with around 10 years of experience in counselling services, education, mental health settings and private practice. She offers a reflective, supportive approach for people who have been trying to manage on their own and who may feel anxious, low in mood, emotionally exhausted, or strained by relationship and family challenges.

Her work often involves helping people who feel they are coping outwardly while struggling internally with stress, loss, life transitions, parenting pressures, eating or sleeping difficulties, anger, low self-esteem or questions about intimacy and identity. Paula also supports those navigating trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar-related challenges, career concerns and issues affecting LGBT clients. She aims to create a space where difficult thoughts and feelings can be explored without pressure to have everything figured out.

Grounded in psychodynamic therapy, Paula explores how past experiences and relationship patterns continue to shape present feelings and behaviour. She combines this with integrative methods - including person-centred and solution-focused ideas - to tailor sessions to each person�s needs. Paula is a member of BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and works with individuals and couples from the United Kingdom and beyond. She offers a calm, compassionate setting intended to help people make sense of their experiences and begin to feel less alone with what they are carrying.