Psychotherapy with Paula Kenny

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Psychotherapy with me is a collaborative, compassionate process designed to help you understand yourself more deeply, connect the dots to enable you to create meaningful change in your life. With over two decades of experience as a Transactional Analysis psychotherapist, NLP trainer and mental‑health educator, I offer a warm, trauma‑aware space where you can explore why you think, feel and act in the way that you do. You can explore what’s happening in your inner world safely and at your own pace.

My approach is integrative and practical. I blend TA, hypnotherapy, neuroscience‑informed tools, and mind–body techniques to help you make sense of your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and relational patterns. Together, we look at why certain reactions or struggles show up, how they developed, and what you can do to shift them.

Whether you’re dealing with long‑standing difficulties or navigating a challenging period of life, therapy offers a place to slow down, be heard, and build healthier ways of coping. I work with individuals from all backgrounds, including veterans, carers, professionals under pressure, and people seeking personal development or emotional resilience.

How Therapy Helps

People come to therapy for many reasons. Some want relief from distress; others want to understand themselves better, improve relationships, or break patterns that keep repeating. Therapy can help you:

• Make sense of overwhelming emotions

• Understand and change unhelpful patterns

• Heal from trauma and difficult experiences

• Strengthen your sense of self and confidence

• Improve communication and relationships

• Build emotional resilience and self‑compassion

• Develop healthier boundaries

• Create lasting change rather than short‑term fixes​

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Issues I Work With:

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Emotional & Psychological Wellbeing

• Anxiety, panic, worry, overthinking

• Depression, low mood, loss of motivation

• Stress, burnout, overwhelm

• Anger, frustration, emotional reactivity

• Shame, guilt, self‑criticism, inner‑critic work

• Intrusive thoughts and rumination

Trauma & Nervous System Regulation

• Childhood trauma and adverse experiences

• PTSD and complex trauma

• Emotional flashbacks, triggers, hypervigilance

• Dissociation, shutdown, freeze responses

• Nervous‑system dysregulation and overwhelm

Relationships & Attachment

• Relationship difficulties and conflict

• People‑pleasing, fawning, codependency

• Attachment patterns

• Boundary challenges

• Repeating relational patterns

• Family dynamics and intergenerational patterns

Identity, Self‑Worth & Personal Development

• Low self‑esteem and confidence

• Imposter syndrome

• Self‑sabotage and stuckness

• Life transitions and identity shifts

• Building emotional resilience

• Developing a kinder inner voice

Behavioural & Cognitive Patterns

• Negative thinking

• Procrastination and avoidance

• Habit change and self‑discipline

• Emotional eating or stress‑based behaviours

Workplace & Professional Stress

• Burnout and exhaustion

• High‑pressure roles and performance anxiety

• Difficult colleagues or workplace dynamics

• Boundary setting in professional environments

• Compassion fatigue (carers, frontline workers, welfare roles)

Grief, Loss & Life Challenges

• Bereavement

• Relationship breakdown

• Major life changes