About Paul Parkin

Paul Parkin is an online counsellor, therapist and life coach. He is passionate about helping people reach their full potential and providing affordable online counselling to people everywhere via his counselling website Counsellors Online. Paul has worked as an online counsellor for the past 20 years and has worked in several counselling settings, including - National Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) the NHS. North East Council on Addictions (NECA) and Several telephone helplines including the Samaritans. Read other blog posts.

Counselling from a Mobile Device

By |2023-06-16T22:28:06+01:00October 2, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

Counselling, therapy and life coaching has seen a dramatic rise in popularity, especially counselling from a mobile device, with people under previously unheard of time pressures, busy lives mean most people want to do their business on the move and that goes for online personal therapy too, if it's available. The good news is with many therapists now offering professional [...]

Giving for Nothing in Return

By |2023-06-16T22:28:06+01:00October 1, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

We're told from an early age that what we give, we get back, but it seems giving for nothing in return is best. Recent studies conducted by Campbell-Meiklejohn and Ph.D. student Jo Cutler have shown that when we give out of genuine kindness (when we give for nothing in return), rather than strategic kindness (when there is an advantage to be [...]

Expat Counseling

By |2023-06-16T22:28:07+01:00September 26, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

We've all felt at some stage, that running away from the pressures of life and a new start was the answer, expat counseling can help, more and more people who have left the UK for a new start are now accessing expat support services, because they realised what we all do eventually, that our challenges and issues travel with us [...]

What Kind of Self Story are you Writing?

By |2023-06-16T22:28:08+01:00September 19, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

Have you ever asked yourself  'what kind of self story you're creating'. Maybe you haven't given much thought or consideration to how much we can actually influence our ‘self’. Most of us have heard the phrase 'We are what we think' but how many of us believe it. A lot of who we are is as a result of our [...]

Taking Back Control

By |2023-06-16T22:28:08+01:00July 14, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

Life isn't supposed to be easy, I really don't know anyone with an easy life, but what can make it easier is taking back control. This doesn't have to mean all at once, or feel terrifying, or that you just don't have the time or the energy to even begin the task. Think small, maybe start with your junk drawer, [...]

Love Choices

By |2023-06-16T22:28:09+01:00July 10, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

How much control do we have over our love choices. We don't usually set out to choose an un-loving partner, but what research on attachment shows is that when we experienced an avoidant/insecure attachment style of parenting, we are more likely make less than ideal love choices. We're often subconsciously drawn to similar partners in terms of how loved they [...]

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