Counselling
Welcoming individuals, couples and families.
Counselling in Harrow, with daytime and evening appointments.
Contact Paula
Counselling issues
Counselling for young people
Couples and Family Counselling
Individual Counselling
My hope is to establish a strong bond, ensuring you feel comfortable enough to talk about whatever matters. I believe that you know yourself better than anyone else. For this reason I will not attempt to direct you or impose my own views. I am here to form a relationship where you feel completely at ease and free from criticism and judgment. I am interested in how you experience your issues and the impact that relationships and life situations have on you.
While we are together I am actively listening to you and also noticing my own internal reactions.Self-awareness helps me to be authentic and open, allowing me to share my insights when this seems to be genuinely helpful.
As a client becoming more self-aware is often both a challenging and an empowering experience.You may find yourself connecting with your own profound resources and strengths. Through this process you are likely to discover more about yourself and how you relate to others.
Counselling issues
Whether you are struggling with a specific life event or a persistent feeling you can’t quite name, I offer a safe, non-judgmental space to explore your experience. Counselling issues can include:
Feelings of:
Depression, low mood, anxiety, panic, anger, loneliness, guilt, and shame.
Adjusting to:
Illness, disability, divorce, redundancy, retirement, children leaving home, and estrangement from family members.
Processing and exploring:
The personal and emotional effects relating to world events. Your own or a loved one’s neurodivergence, and high sensitivity.
Emotional effects of:
Bereavement, loss, trauma, abuse, bullying, prejudice, and antisemitism.
Identity:
How you identify yourself, including culture, beliefs, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
Spirituality:
You can explore spirituality, if and how you experience it, and what it means to you.
Counselling for young people
Pressures can come from various sources including family breakdown, relationships, bullying, abuse, alcohol and drugs, exams, becoming independent, finding employment and the online environment. There are messages from the media (sometimes conflicting) about how to look, how to dress and how to be. For some people there are pressures to engage in sexual activity before feeling ready. At times life can feel worrying, stressful, desperate and out of control.
Counselling is an opportunity to speak with a professional about anything that is distressing, confusing and difficult to cope with. You may choose to have a few counselling sessions to help get through a hard time or you might benefit from long term support.
Couples and Family Counselling
We all enter relationships bringing our unique history, personality, hopes, desires, culture and coping mechanisms. Difficulties can arise from differing opinions, needs and wishes. Additionally, daily pressures and major life events can significantly impact relationships These may be related to:work, and finnces, physical and mental health, parenting, and family dynamics, friendships and social life and lack of quality time. Exploring a presenting issue often reveals deeper areas that need attention.
Working with a qualified counsellor provides a safe environment o identify and address the causes of your difficulties and to understand each other's feelings and perspectives. There is time and space for each person to express themselves and to be truly heard. You can also improve how you communicate your views and emotions. As a result of this work, positive changes and clearer ways forward often emerge.
Paula Newman is a BACP Accredited counsellor in Stanmore offering daytime and evening appointments.
You are most welcome to Get in touch if you would like to discuss counselling and to book an appointment.
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