Paul Allen

I am generally available on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Other times are available, so please feel free to ask. 

Hello, 

Are you experiencing anxiety, low self-esteem or a general sense of being stuck? 

Do you need help grieving the loss of a loved one, dealing with a major life change or coping with addiction?

Is your relationship or family life not what you would like it to be?

If so, I may well be able to help you. 

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

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

I now have a Foundation Degree in Humanistic Counselling, a Certificate in Relational Couples Counselling, and have been trained in working with trauma. 

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 believe that we all have the capacity to engage in a process of and effect enduring change.

I work from offices in Christchurch within easy reach of the New Forest, Bournemouth and Poole. 

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 and others in everyday situations, within groups large and small, within organisations, and with family, friends, partners and colleagues. 

It can be applied to the examination of our private and work lives, and offers a frame of thought through which we can claim and own the agency of them.

My approach is to share with you some fundamental principles of self reflection and 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, and what to do to bring about the change you seek.