Paula McKee, BACP

Paula McKee is a compassionate UK-accredited counsellor and clinical supervisor with more than 14 years of experience supporting people across education settings, bereavement services, agency placements, and private practice. She works extensively with complex family dynamics and with attachment patterns that appear in both childhood and adult relationships, offering a calm and attentive space to explore difficult emotions and relational patterns. Paula has considerable experience addressing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, loss and separation, and issues related to neurodiversity, including autism and Asperger syndrome. She describes herself as an empathic practitioner who is highly sensitive to difference and diversity, informed by many years working across inner and outer London education services.

Drawing on her own lived experience of leaving the country of her birth, Paula brings personal insight to the challenges that migration and cultural transition can create. She is a trauma-informed practitioner who aims to provide a non-judgmental, attentive therapeutic environment for processing early traumatic experiences and building greater self-awareness. Paula also uses solution-focused methods to help clients set achievable goals and tap into their existing resources to resolve areas of distress. She is a member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which represents counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. Paula generally offers sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and during evening times; clients are invited to check her schedule for current availability.