Paula McKee, BACP

Paula McKee is a compassionate UK-accredited counsellor and clinical supervisor with more than 14 years of experience working with people in educational settings, bereavement services, agency placements and private practice.

She has extensive experience addressing challenging family dynamics and relationship patterns, including attachment styles that begin in childhood and continue into adult life. Paula works with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, loss and separation, and brings an informed understanding of neurodiversity to her work.

Known as an empathic practitioner, she is sensitive to difference and diversity, having spent many years working across both inner and outer London education services. Paula also draws on her own lived experience of leaving her country of birth to understand the particular challenges that migration can bring.

As a trauma-informed practitioner she offers a non-judgemental, attentive space to explore and process early traumatic experiences at a pace that feels manageable. She also uses a solution-focused approach to set practical goals and encourage clients to draw on their own resources to find workable solutions to areas of distress.

Paula is accredited with the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). She generally offers sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and in the evenings - clients should check her schedule for up-to-date time slots.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Paula McKee draws on approaches that translate well to online work and focus on relational patterns, personal experience and practical solutions. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current ways of relating; it helps when difficulties in close relationships, trust or attachment patterns are part of someone’s distress. Client-Centered Therapy puts the client’s experience at the heart of the process, offering empathic listening and support to build self-understanding and self-esteem while clients navigate life changes and emotional challenges. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying goals and small, achievable steps toward change, which can be helpful for clients wanting practical strategies to manage specific problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Paula works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences, and adapts sessions as understanding grows. Clients and therapist together decide the direction of work based on what proves most helpful.

Online therapy with Paula is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility to fit around work, family and other commitments. These options make it easier for people to access support from wherever they are, maintain continuity of care, and choose the format that feels most comfortable for them.