Paula Caffrey, BACP

Paula Caffrey is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with 20 years of practice. She works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. Paula has clinical experience across a range of emotional and behavioural concerns and brings that to one-to-one sessions.

She uses a person-centred approach that focuses on what the client wants to address. Paula also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Psychodynamic ideas to help understand patterns of thought and behaviour. Internal Family Systems is part of her work when people want to look at conflicting parts of themselves.

Paula trained and practised after leaving the Royal Navy, and she has worked in voluntary and statutory settings as well as private practice. Her experience includes roles with substance-misuse services and sexual abuse support, plus staff counselling within an NHS trust. These roles have included one-to-one counselling and group facilitation.

In sessions she tends to work in a straightforward, non-prescriptive way. That means planning and techniques are guided by what each person brings to the room. She will discuss practical steps as well as talking through emotional material when that feels useful.

People commonly bring issues such as attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, relationship and communication problems, dissociation, and difficulties linked to addiction. Paula also supports work around grief, guilt and shame, and the aftermath of separation and infidelity.

Approaches used in online sessions