Paula Spencer-Snell, NCPS

Paula Spencer-Snell is a counsellor who focuses on helping people through major life shifts and emotional strain. She works with concerns like stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. Paula also supports people facing issues such as midlife crisis, low self-esteem and the effects of trauma or abuse.

Paula uses a collaborative style. She listens first and helps people set practical goals. Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful, with tools to manage day-to-day stress and mood. She draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs.

Her background includes four years of professional practice and the NCPS credential. Paula blends client-centred conversation with techniques from cognitive behavioural and solution-focused approaches. She also uses mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the client’s situation.

In practice Paula helps people work through feelings of abandonment, attachment worries, body image concerns and caregiver stress. She also supports those dealing with chronic pain or long-term illness, financial worries and the emotional fallout of divorce or separation. Work may include addressing guilt, shame, isolation and searching for life purpose.

Sessions are intended to be a space to talk honestly and build actionable coping strategies. Paula aims to help people find clearer direction and steadier mood so everyday life becomes more manageable. To begin, follow the site’s matching and booking steps.

How Paula uses different therapy approaches online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s own perspective so they feel heard and can find their own solutions; it helps with low self-esteem, life purpose and relationship worries. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and stress. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day coping with worry and difficult emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paula will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that fit. That collaboration helps decide whether to focus on skills-based CBT tools, reflective client-centred work, mindfulness practice or a mix of these approaches.

The profile does not list specific session formats, so please confirm how sessions are delivered before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by saving travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a lunch break or avoiding the need to be on camera for every appointment. Registered or accredited professionals often adapt techniques for remote sessions so practical exercises, breathing work and reflective conversation still form the core of the process.