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.

When It All Looks Dark and There’s No Hope

By |2023-06-16T22:37:19+01:00May 6, 2014|Counsellors Online Blog|

Plodding on and trying to put a brave face on things can for a time keep desperation at bay, usual a series of negative feelings will test even the strongest resolve and act like a sledge-hammer to almost wipe us out. lifting ourselves up after such a battering can be a long and depressive haul. for many of us the [...]

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Ways to Say No Without It Sounding Like a ‘No’

By |2023-06-16T22:37:20+01:00May 5, 2014|Counsellors Online Blog|

Better to have a reason to say no than an excuse right? So imagine you're up to your neck in work and someone adds to your load, the right thing to do would be to explain you are sinking under the current tasks, research shows however that we keep accepting more and more, until stress makes us erupt and with [...]

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For Our Troubles

By |2023-06-16T22:37:20+01:00May 4, 2014|Counsellors Online Blog|

Can we compare or prioritise a tear to bleeding, if the person we care about is hurting in any way, don’t we feel it and hurt too. There’s nothing worse than not being able to help someone we're close to when they are in any kind of distress. I’d like to write a little about the top 3 things which [...]

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I’m Lucky and I Know it.

By |2023-06-16T22:37:21+01:00May 2, 2014|Counsellors Online Blog|

Sitting upright in my hospital bed, it had been a long night, I had woken around 3am for the toilet, I did what I often did and stood up too quick for my body to manage, usually I sit down again but this time I steadied myself against the wall. The dizziness didn't go away, it got worse the next [...]

Give Your Relationship a Spring Clean

By |2023-06-16T22:37:22+01:00May 1, 2014|Counsellors Online Blog|

The people who have great and happy relationships are generally those who are on the same wavelength as their partner, but this usually doesn't just happen. Its usually not there in the beginning, and it takes time, patience and understanding, but the people in happy and successful relationships make it happen that way. Here I want to share with you [...]

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