Paul Allen

I am generally available on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. 

Hello, my name is Paul & I can offer you a friendly empathic space to explore what is going on for you. I provide psychotherapeutic counselling for individuals & couples seeking personal or professional development. Working in-person or online, I can give you practical, non-judgemental & confidential support.

I went to counselling as a way to address my own personal developmental needs &, experiencing the desired change, chose to study it.

I now have a foundation degree in humanistic counselling, specialising in transactional analysis psychotherapy, from Middlesex University. 

I have come to appreciate that it’s never too late or too soon to reflect on how we live life if it isn’t satisfying us the way we think it could, and acknowledge that we all have the capacity to engage in a process of and effect enduring change.

I work from offices in Christchurch serving the BCP and New Forest, and online using doxy.me or Google Meet. 

Guided self reflection offers a practical framework for examining our interpersonal relationships in order to help us make sense of how we feel about ourselves & others in everyday situations, within groups large and small, within organisations, & with family, friends, partners & colleagues. It can be applied to the examination of our private & work lives, & offers a frame of thought through which we can claim & own the agency of them.

My approach is to share with you some fundamental principles of self reflection & their application to challenges so that together we can find a route to a happier you.

Time spent working with me will help you understand why you feel the way you do, & what to do to bring about the change you seek.