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Paul Gledhill, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 6 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemCoping with life changes
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Paul Gledhill is a psychodynamic counsellor who offers practical, down-to-earth help for people feeling stuck. He is approachable and direct, and focuses on helping clients understand patterns that keep causing pain. Paul holds a BACP credential and brings six years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom.
Paul uses psychodynamic therapy to look at what lies beneath repeating feelings and behaviours. Sessions aim to uncover emotional drivers and past experiences that affect everyday life.
Background and approach
He explains things plainly and helps people make sense of difficult reactions. Typical concerns he addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, and problems with self-esteem. He also supports people facing life changes, career pressures, and addictive patterns.
The work often moves between looking at current problems and the roots that feed them. Paul adapts the pace to each person. Some sessions focus on immediate coping strategies.
Other times they follow deeper emotional material over weeks or months. The approach is collaborative - the client guides what feels most useful. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Paul explains the process clearly and helps people decide which format suits them best. He uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
Psychodynamic work online and practical session options
Psychodynamic therapy explores emotions and relational patterns that influence present life. It looks at recurring feelings, defended parts of the self, and past experiences that shape behaviour. This approach can help when someone struggles with anxiety, depression, relationship or intimacy-related issues, trauma and self-esteem concerns.Paul uses psychodynamic ideas to build a shared understanding of what is happening for a person. He works collaboratively, listening to a client’s goals and testing what approach fits best. Finding the right style is part of the process and adjustments are made as the work unfolds so the client feels heard and involved.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter, written exchanges or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options give flexibility for different routines and practical needs, helping people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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