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.

Relationship Zest

By |2023-06-16T22:28:05+01:00November 18, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

How is your relationship? Does it have the relationship zest required for a forever mutually enjoyable relationship? Many couples find that the initial honeymoon period of their relationship is perfect, but after a while, the feelings can begin to change, at this important crossroads, if they don't act to understand and maintain a healthy relationship, then it can mean trouble [...]

Extend Your Weekend

By |2023-06-16T22:28:05+01:00October 16, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

Would you like to extend your weekend, make it feel longer than just two days, well you can. By reducing the pressure on your weekends and de-stressing the other days of your working week. Most people look forward to their weekends, some wish their week away and because of this feel they get very little from their working week. Working [...]

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 [...]

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