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.

Does a bad childhood mean a failed relationship

By |2023-06-16T22:31:42+01:00April 24, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

Were you loved as a child, did you feel part of a close knit family relationship, or like many, were you a child of an unstable or failed relationship? It may surprise you to learn that only 20% of the western world's children had the 'right' kind of parenting, do you also know that children who had bad childhoods, where [...]

3 Relationship Red Flags

By |2023-06-16T22:31:43+01:00April 19, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

Relationship red flags are persistent, problematic aspects of our relationship. So what are relationship red flags? Things which upset you time and time again, that infuriate and upset you, behaviours which your partner keeps on doing which undermine your relationship, this is a relationship red flag. Here I will talk about 3 relationship red flags and what you can do to [...]

Grieving Jam and Bread

By |2023-06-16T22:31:44+01:00April 13, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

Even jam and bread can trigger our grieving for a loved one. If like me you're grieving right now and you're a member of a Facebook nostalgia groups, often from where we grew up, you know the type, they post images and memories from our childhood haunts, often a lot of laughs and often real silly stuff too. [...]

4 Steps to Fix Childhood Hurts

By |2023-06-16T22:31:45+01:00February 5, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

We have all struggled to understand and manage our feelings at some point, for some of us who did not receive the 'right type of parenting' or experienced CEN (Childhood Emotional Neglect) in our formative years and growing up, the lessons in dealing with emotions were often absent from our valuable life lessons and can make 'fixing childhood hurts' a [...]

SAD and Depression

By |2023-06-16T22:31:47+01:00January 11, 2018|Counsellors Online Blog|

SAD, or Seasonal affective disorder is a recognisable mood disorder, generally effecting people who have more stable mental health throughout most of the year, but exhibit depressive symptoms at a particular time each year, most commonly in the winter. There are a lot of common sense reasons why a lot of people have the blues around this time of year, all the [...]

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