Paula McKee , BACP

Paula McKee is a UK accredited counsellor and clinical supervisor with 14 years of direct client work across education settings, bereavement services, agency placements, and private practice. She is registered with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which reflects her professional training and adherence to recognised counselling standards. Paula has extensive experience in addressing challenging family dynamics and relationship issues, including attachment patterns that emerge in both childhood and adult life.

Her practice includes supporting people through anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, loss and separation, and an informed understanding of neurodiversity. As a trauma-informed practitioner, she offers an attentive, non-judgemental space for exploring early traumatic experiences and their ongoing effects. Paula has spent many years working across inner and outer London education services and brings sensitivity to difference and diversity informed by that background.

Paula also draws on solution-focused methods to help clients set practical goals and access their own resources for change. Her lived experience of leaving the country of birth informs her understanding of the complex challenges that can accompany migration and related transitions. She works as a clinical supervisor in addition to her therapeutic practice.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions with Paula McKee

Paula McKee integrates attachment-based work into her practice by exploring how early relationships influence current ways of relating. This approach can help people understand patterns in intimate and family relationships and support healing around attachment wounds.

Her client-centered approach focuses on offering empathic, non-judgemental listening and supporting the client's own pace of change. This method is useful for building self-awareness, strengthening self-esteem, and working through life transitions.

She also uses solution-focused techniques to identify concrete goals and practical steps clients can take between sessions. This can be especially helpful when people want targeted strategies for managing stress, anxiety, or specific relationship challenges.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Paula works with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the focus over time as progress is made.

Online therapy with Paula can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different lifestyles and schedules. These options make it easier to access licensed professionals and therapists from home or other convenient locations while maintaining continuity of care.