Paul Dent
Experienced counsellor for relationships and coping
BACP United Kingdom
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, LGBT, Relationship
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centred Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Paul
Paul Dent is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 12 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, relationship and intimacy problems.
Background and approach
He works with a wide range of concerns including grief, sleeping and eating issues, ADHD, bipolar disorder and self-esteem struggles. Paul believes people know important things about their own lives.
He treats clients as the experts of their stories and builds on existing strengths. He aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful rather than overwhelming.
In sessions he listens closely and helps people spot patterns that keep problems going. He sets clear goals together and reviews progress regularly so clients see how therapy is helping.
Meetings focus on practical steps as well as understanding past experiences. Paul uses a mix of approaches to suit different needs.
He draws on client-centred ways of working to keep sessions warm and person-focused. He also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help with anxiety and unhelpful thinking, and he includes Gottman Method ideas for relationship work.
Over time Paul helps people develop tools for coping with life changes and ongoing stresses. He supports people to improve communication, manage emotions and rebuild intimacy.
The work aims to give clearer choices and more confident everyday living.
Approaches that guide online work
Paul uses the Gottman Method ideas to help couples improve communication, reduce conflict and rebuild closeness by practising new interaction skills. The approach focuses on concrete routines and small behavioural changes that can improve everyday connection.He also works in a client-centred way that keeps the person's experience at the heart of sessions, offering empathy and listening first. Cognitive behavioural therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking and test more helpful thoughts and behaviours, which is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Paul will discuss goals and preferences and decide together which methods fit best. This collaborative process means plans can change as needs evolve and different techniques can be tried to see what helps.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat provides quick check-ins and text-based messaging supports short ongoing contact between meetings. These options increase flexibility and help people keep continuity with therapy even when schedules are tight.
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Experience
12+ years
Registered with
BACP
Languages
English