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Paul Linger, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 4 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyAddictionsRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseDepression
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Paul Linger is a counsellor who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions and trauma. He also helps with relationship and intimacy-related worries, parenting concerns, grief, self-esteem issues and career pressures. Paul works with a broad range of life changes, including chronic illness, caregiving stress and adoption-related matters.
He uses a warm, interactive style and treats people with respect and sensitivity. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs, with plain, direct conversation and practical steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Paul believes the client is the expert on their life and builds on existing strengths. Paul trained and practised within mental health services for a decade before his current clinical work. That background includes roles in autism and additional needs support, addictions services, youth work and social care, and recent work in the NHS community mental health setting.
He also runs a independent practice in the United Kingdom. His approach draws on cognitive-behavioural ideas, acceptance and commitment thinking, attachment-aware methods and person-centred listening. He uses these in different combinations to match what a person needs in the moment.
Paul keeps sessions straightforward and focused on agreed goals. Paul holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP. He has four years of professional counselling experience beyond his earlier service roles.
Sessions are offered in English and are available via online formats.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It focuses on values-based action so someone can move towards the life they want despite painful emotions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together. It uses practical strategies and experiments to reduce unhelpful thinking patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paul will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. He adapts techniques over time so sessions stay useful and relevant to what the client wants to achieve.
Online sessions make access easier and more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options let people fit counselling around work, family and health commitments while using familiar communication styles.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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