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.

At One Wherever

By |2023-06-16T22:34:12+01:00January 25, 2017|Counsellors Online Blog|

There has been much written on the importance of feeling at one with ourselves and being in the right environment, being at one wherever. I am reminded of this as I sip my latte at my favourite Kyrenia cafe 'Shooters', the latte's are great and the staff are so pleasant, they seem to be where they need to be. The [...]

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Inner peace – 5 ways to create it

By |2023-06-16T22:34:13+01:00January 10, 2017|Counsellors Online Blog|

Inner peace and peace on earth, we all want it. Watching the news this morning is a stark reminder of the conflict and chaos we human beings are capable of, we all want peace for the world we live in and for our communities, however, it can seem like a tall order with over 70 wars going on at this [...]

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Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail

By |2023-06-16T22:34:13+01:00January 6, 2017|Counsellors Online Blog|

As I sit sipping my latte in one of my favourite cafe's in Bangkok and watching the people and the world adjust to a New Year, one of my fellow coffee lovers casually asks me what my New Year's Resolutions was? The light bulb moment for today, that's what I will write my first blog of 2017 about, I had [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions

By |2023-06-16T22:34:14+01:00December 31, 2016|Counsellors Online Blog|

At New Year we often take a look inwardly at our lives, specifically on things we would like to change, New Year resolutions are very common and most of us will state that we are going to change something we aren't happy about. for many of us, we use the occasion to motivate ourselves to make changes, after all there [...]

How to Raise Happier Children

By |2023-06-16T22:34:15+01:00December 16, 2016|Counsellors Online Blog|

Happier children aren't born, they are nurtured. One of the most important yet challenging parental responsibilities is teaching them how to be happy! This gift and attribute will not only cement a lasting connection between parent and child, but it will enable our child to look back on childhood with fondness and become the fully functioning adult we hope for [...]

Brexit anxiety, depression and stress

By |2023-06-16T22:34:16+01:00December 11, 2016|Counsellors Online Blog|

Brexit anxiety, depression and stress Often our finances are not the first item many of us look for in news headlines, unless you happen to work in the financial sector, however as the world economy and Brexit worries spread across the UK confidence has fallen, creating a state of anxiety, depression and stress across a nation. The effects on millions [...]

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