Paula Bantick-Ward, BACP
8 years in practice
Paula Bantick-Ward is a counsellor with eight years' experience helping people through difficult periods.
License and registration
- BACP
- 348864 · expires March 2026
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
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About Paula
Paula Bantick-Ward is a counsellor with eight years' experience helping people through difficult periods. She focuses on making counselling accessible, affordable and convenient. Paula offers work that aims to help people understand feelings, make practical changes and move forward from overwhelm or distress.
Paula uses a person-centred way of working, so she aims to be genuine and non-judgemental in sessions. She listens closely and uses empathy to help people name what they are feeling.
Background and approach
This approach is paired with practical techniques drawn from other therapies to help with day-to-day coping. Sessions can cover many concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship difficulties. Paula also supports people facing addiction, trauma, intimacy issues, eating concerns, anger and self-esteem struggles.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, caregiver stress, cancer-related worries and separation or divorce issues. She offers online and telephone appointments and sometimes uses creative exercises such as metaphor, journaling and creative writing during therapy. Paula also draws on cognitive behavioural approaches and solution-focused ideas when helpful to set small, manageable goals.
Paula is a BACP member, works with clinical supervision and carries professional insurance. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients, with session formats that include video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Paula lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Paula names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Working with Emotion and Thought Online
Paula uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and name difficult feelings and the ways those feelings affect close relationships. This approach often helps when people feel stuck in painful patterns with themselves or others. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is offered to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify values and take small actions that matter to them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and emotional responses, and it can support people troubled by abandonment, trust or connection issues.Paula sees finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they can try different ways of working until they find what helps most for a person’s particular situation.
Online therapy with Paula includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing or want flexible check-ins between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Paula commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and support around addiction and eating concerns. Additional focus areas include attachment matters, caregiver stress, divorce and cancer-related worries.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her core approach is person-centred, offering a genuine and non-judgemental space. She pairs empathy with practical techniques from CBT, ACT and solution-focused ideas when those tools help.
What experience and background does she have?
Paula has eight years' experience working as a counsellor. Her work includes creative methods like metaphor and journaling alongside talking therapy techniques.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she is able to work with international clients.
What session formats are available?
Paula provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their life and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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