Paula McKee

Paula McKee is a counsellor who works with women's issues alongside a wide range of personal concerns. She holds BACP accreditation, and brings 14 years of client work in settings including education, bereavement services and private practice. Paula aims to create a calm, attentive space where people can talk through painful experiences at their own pace.

She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape today’s patterns. Paula also practises client-centred methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities. When it feels helpful she takes a solution-focused approach to set clear, practical steps forward.

Paula has long experience with difficult family dynamics and relationship problems. She also supports people dealing with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, loss and separation. Her work includes understanding neurodiversity and issues linked to leaving one’s country of birth, informed by her own lived experience.

She describes herself as empathic and attentive, and has worked across a variety of inner and outer London education services. Paula says her aim is to help people develop insight and awareness that can lead to meaningful change in daily life.

Typical concerns she addresses include grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy issues, parenting and sleep difficulties. She also helps with anger, career questions, coping with life changes and ADHD-related challenges.

Paula usually lists available times on her schedule for weekday and evening appointments, and asks people to check current slots when they make arrangements.

How Paula's approaches translate to online counselling

Paula uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps when relationship history, separation or attachment worries are part of the problem. It focuses on understanding how past bonds influence feelings and behaviour today.

She also works in a client-centred way, which means sessions are guided by what each person needs. The counsellor listens closely and follows the client’s pace and priorities. Paula may bring a solution-focused approach to set short-term goals and practical steps when people want concrete changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Paula will discuss goals, preferences and what feels useful, and will adapt methods collaboratively as therapy progresses. That conversation helps decide how much time to spend on understanding history versus setting forward steps.

If you are considering online therapy, please confirm the specific session options before booking as formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into daily life, for example by saving travel time, allowing weekday or evening appointments and making shorter check-ins possible when needed. Registered or accredited professionals can support people with the same therapeutic approaches used in face-to-face work, while helping clients manage therapy around family, work and other commitments.