Paula McKee, BACP

Paula McKee is a compassionate UK-accredited counsellor and clinical supervisor with over 14 years of direct client work across education settings, bereavement services, agency placements, and private practice. She has developed extensive experience supporting challenging family dynamics and relationship difficulties, with particular expertise in attachment styles as they present across childhood and adulthood. Paula works with people facing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, loss and separation, and those seeking greater understanding of neurodiversity.

She brings an empathic, sensitive approach to difference and diversity built from many years working across inner and outer London education services. Paula also understands the complex challenges that can follow leaving one’s country of birth, drawing on this as a lived experience that informs her practice. As a trauma-informed practitioner she offers a non-judgemental, attentive space to explore and process early traumatic experiences and current difficulties.

Her work blends reflective, insight-oriented conversation with practical, solution-focused methods that help clients set goals and draw on their own resources. The therapeutic alliance she forms supports clients to work at their own pace, develop awareness, and make changes that promote a clearer way forward. Paula holds BACP accreditation, indicating membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She generally offers sessions on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and evenings; clients should check her schedule for up-to-date availability.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Paula works from several complementary approaches that shape online sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns of connection and security formed in early relationships; it helps people understand how attachment styles influence current relationships and emotional responses. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an empathic, non-directive space where the client’s own perspective guides the work; it is helpful for building self-awareness, self-worth, and emotional processing. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on practical steps and achievable goals, drawing on a person’s existing strengths to address specific problems and create forward momentum.

Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Paula works with clients to identify goals, preferences, and needs, and adapts methods so the therapy fits the individual rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model. This collaborative stance helps clients feel involved in shaping their care.

Online sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for different lifestyles and needs. These options make it easier to attend sessions from home, during breaks, or outside standard hours, and they support continuity of care when in-person appointments are not possible. Registered professionals and therapists can use these formats effectively to maintain therapeutic momentum and adapt work to each client’s circumstances.