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.

My childhood – nothing like a home

By |2023-06-16T22:37:22+01:00March 11, 2014|Real People - Real Stories|

I am going to talk about my childhood. I don’t think it’s about me being bullied, it’s about life and humanity. I was being bullied and I also bullied others as well, even though I didn’t realise it. For as long as I can remember, I was clinging to my mother. I have one brother and he hated me. My father, [...]

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Bully – Know My Pain

By |2023-06-16T22:37:23+01:00March 4, 2014|Real People - Real Stories|

David, This email is probably the hardest and most difficult I will ever have written. I'm not sure if I should try to reign my anger in or just let you have all of the anger and bile pent up inside me. Many years ago when I first moved to ... you chose to befriend me. Little did I know that [...]

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My letter to a bully

By |2023-06-16T22:37:24+01:00February 26, 2014|Real People - Real Stories|

This letter I pen to you today is the result of the many years of torment that I have endured, I was bullied and this is part of my attempt to get some closure. To the bully, During the last ten years I have suffered from severe depression. This depression did not only appear in the last ten years, I have [...]

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Those we love are never forgotten

By |2023-06-16T22:37:25+01:00February 12, 2014|Real People - Real Stories|

A lit up candle light for a grief moment. I want to share my grief in the hope that I can finally get some closure and find a peace so I do. I live in Belfast and I have struggled with the loss of my son almost 25 years ago, in what was described as a sectarian killing, I don't [...]

‘Life – What’s it all about’

By |2023-06-16T22:37:26+01:00May 3, 2013|Counsellors Online Blog|

Connecting - The Meaning of Life For me life is about connecting, with other people and other living things, in my work as an online counsellor, but also in how I choose to live my life it's all about connecting and in some cases choosing not to connect, I try to connect with everyone I can, but I have learned [...]

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