CBT Therapist in Folkestone & East Kent

Paul describing things very gently with more general metaphors, not being overwhelmed. Paul exploring processes of the brain

I found being able to talk about my health issues very useful. I have learned new skills by means of meditation. I find being able to meditate helps me deal with my anxieties. The levels of depression and anxiety I first felt at the beginning of therapy have reduced greatly. The therapist showed great levels of empathy for my issues. I would recommend this service to others.

Paul has helped me find a way to “step back “from my own mind, to slow down my thoughts, to recognise unhelpful thoughts and let go. I want to say that it has all been helpful in many different ways. From just talking to somebody who can help me rationalise my feelings, to learning more about how the human brain works.
Within our first few sessions, I was leaving feeling heard and understood. I feel incredibly comfortable and appreciative that Paul has gotten to know me and the thoughts and feelings that I experience, even when I can’t articulate them.
I can confidently say that reaching out to Paul for therapy was easily one of the best decisions I have made in my adult life, so far. I look forward to more sessions and to continuing to enrich my ability to ground myself, to rationalise my thoughts, to cope, to survive.

Therapy has allowed me to acknowledge, accept and appreciate my anxiety as well as helped me to cope with it. It has enabled me to see my worth and make me believe in myself and my abilities. It has given me confidence and pushed me outside of my comfort zone which has made my life so different all for the better. It has given me knowledge of how my brain thinks which affects how I now deal with situations. Paul understands completely my issues and always helps me to resolve and think about situations whether big or small. Always makes me feel that my views, emotions, and opinions are validated.
I am extremely happy that I made contact with Paul and believe that since therapy all aspects of my life have changed completely for the better. I am the most content and happy I have ever been in life and believe that is completely down to the progress I have made in therapy. I am so grateful for the help and support I have had and don’t know how to thank you enough for giving me a new perspective and outlook on a life that before meeting you, I had decided wasn’t worth living. What a turnaround!

Using meditation and mindfulness to help my recovery. I would certainly recommend Paul to others. He showed a great deal of empathy and understanding. He clearly has a wealth of experience. He is quick to respond to my concerns ad any issues that I raised. Thank you, Paul, for all your help.

Understanding how the brain works with anxiety and how small steps can overcome issues when you feel stuck for an answer. Being reminded not to be so hard on myself. Learning the joys of meditation and the benefits it gives you.
Paul totally understands my issues and with his help and guidance I’m in a place I worried I would never get back to. I tried hypnotherapy to overcome my driving anxiety with limited success. CBT with Paul has had the result I hoped for.

Therapy has helped me start addressing some of the issues I was having and look at things in a different way. Some of the sessions can be challenging but more in a thought-provoking way. The therapist appears to understand my issues and puts forward helpful suggestions.

Paul understands every issue I have discussed with him. He is a very thoughtful and understanding person who is helping me to cope with my problems. I look forward to my weekly sessions with Paul, he calms me down and makes me feel more positive. He is very professional and understanding man.

Paul is a good listener and understood what we needed to talk about, even, if on occasions I didn’t. I had a couple of goals relating to improving my ability to have happy relationships, and talking to Paul, who understood me felt easy and natural. If relaxed and unthreatening is what you are looking for, then Paul will be perfect for you. Unthreatening does not mean unchallenging, because my therapy was hard work at times, but definitely worth it.

Having a professional listen and offer a different opinion helped me make sense of my problems. I believe he recognised my situation very well and understood my problems.

I have found being able to talk through issues with someone who is not personally involved has helped me to come to decisions that I feel will help the situation has been very useful. It has helped me feel more in control. Paul has worked in the NHS for so many years he has been able to understand my issues also my family dynamics and my health issues. This helped because it was more like talking with a friend and that helped me open up. We have taken our time and tackled one issue at a time and really focus on the next steps. My anxiety levels have reduced drastically and I feel more able to deal with what life throws at me. I have had my slips but Paul has helped me to get back up and carry on.

Attending therapy has helped me regulate and understand my emotions and consequent behaviour to a greater extent than I previously did. Paul has helped me create action plans going forward to help me deal with situations that I previously struggled with. Since attending therapy, I have felt a lot less anxious with regard to certain situations and a greater sense of calmness in my life. I would recommend Paul to anyone who wants some help in any specific or general part of their life due to understanding nature and commitment to helping people become the best version of themselves.

It is very useful for me to be able to get thoughts off my chest. and for someone to listen and help with my understanding of issues relevant to my current situation. He has helped me a lot to get to a place where I feel a lot freer and able to get the moments of insecurity and intrusive thoughts. I would say Paul has a great understanding of OCD which I struggle with.

The therapy has helped me massively so far since I first started. I was so nervous and anxious but can’t believe how much I have overcome my anxiety. I now deal with it instead of having panic attacks and worrying all the time. I’m much more chilled and enjoy life. Paul really understands my issue and has helped me understand and learn how to deal with it. It has grown confidence for me. I am really happy to have found Paul as I have tried therapy a couple of times and felt it never worked or I couldn’t open up but it was nice to feel comfortable to open up and talk about my problems.

There was very little if anything at all that he didn’t understand. Even if there were specific situations or obsessive things I did that he wasn’t aware of, he could still provide useful information and techniques to combat them. I felt that what I was experiencing was easily explained and that it was not something unique to me. The strategies that I have learned are always useful and have allowed me to free up a lot of time that would previously have been taken up. It allows you to help yourself. What you learn in CBT can be used for the rest of your life. In the case of CBT, you do not necessarily need to detail every obsessive action you do, which allows progress to be made quickly.

He helped me manage my anger and temper, taught me to meditate and focus on my breathing. having a label put on my problems was the biggest breakthrough for trying to manage my problems.

I was able to discuss my problems and issues with an independent person. Paul understood the issues and gave me a greater sense of mindfulness and happiness. I am a different person to the one who walked into my first session.
Paul has been fantastic and really helped me through a difficult period in my life. I now feel a lot happier, more in control and generally in much better health physically and mentally. I cannot recommend Paul highly enough, I felt I was able to discuss anything without being judged. He gave excellent guidance and feedback taking me on a great journey, I am now able to understand myself better and put things into perspective.

Attending therapy has allowed me to take time and have space to reflect and I have learned to understand and accept how my past thinking patterns and behaviours were not always the best and how some of my thought processes have led me to my point now. I hope that I am learning better ways to deal with life’s traumas. It has given me greater confidence to be assertive about how I feel rather than brush my feelings aside because they don’t matter. Sometimes I don’t even know what issues I am working on, but I never feel like Paul has missed the point or doesn’t understand. My therapist is different from friends or family in that they never dismiss my thought or feeling. When I started I cried daily and did not know why. I cry sometimes but I know why and allow myself and even say “well done for being compassionate”. My family was anxious and upset. They say it is good to have me back. I felt angry and a bit bitter. I am now starting to make peace with my past, it feels a lot better.

Attending Paul’s weekly sessions for anxiety has helped me immensely. Having suffered from anxiety for four years the therapy that I received has helped me to cope and recognise the conditions. Paul Is a good listener and understands what problems I have had and the therapy he gives me has taken me to levels of total calm.
Paul has understood completely what I have been experiencing and over the sessions has given me therapy on a step-by-step basis that has progressively helped me to control and deal with my problem.

Tactics and tools against OCD and a deeper understanding of its nature. Thanks to this I am able to better defeat it. I also feel that the therapy I have done so far has made me a lot freer and a lot happier. I also like talking to Paul a he is funny and easily knows tools to combat OCD.

It helped me understand my anxiety and how to control it. Therapy allowed me to gain my confidence back and enjoy life again. Paul was amazing from the start. He made me feel comfortable and he explained everything so well. In terms of understanding my issues 10 out of 10. Therapy changed my life for the better, definitely would recommend.

Speaking with a professional and not being judged about how you think. Being able to come to a joint understanding of my issues and more importantly, where they came from. Paul managed to summarise my issues within the first 6 weeks. He completely understood me.

Someone else showing recognition, validation and compassion towards the issues I have been facing. Understanding why my mind works the way it does based on previous experiences/trauma’s. Being compassionate with myself and removing judgement helps provide freedom and manages expectations. There is no quick fix, therapy takes time.

CBT has taught me strategies for dealing with difficult days in my recovery. It has also taught me a lot about how my brain works, and how to make sure my negative thoughts don’t control my actions. I feel I have a greater understanding about myself as a person and I think that, once I am recovered, I will be a better version of myself than I ever was. I think that Paul largely understands my issues and, even when he doesn’t, he lets me try and explain it. I don’t feel I’ve been forced into a box or prescribed an inflexible ‘set treatment’. Since we started to implement practical strategies, I feel I have improved a great deal. I very much appreciate Paul’s manner and attitude, where he encourages an atmosphere of non-judgement and humour.

Just being able to talk to someone impartial. Very useful to have explained about the brain. I would definitely recommend this service, felt very comfortable, and relaxed with Paul, really noticed super/advice and how it has benefited me in my mind. Very pleased paul has reassured me that If I have any problems in the future, he will be happy to fit me back in.

I have found the session to be mightily helpful, in that I found someone who I can talk to without feeling judged and who put me at ease straight away. I found Paul had a way to understand all my issues. He has a way of talking to you, which puts you at ease. I have found Paul to be extremely knowledgeable, professional and I couldn’t recommend him enough to anyone. He has years of experience a it shows in the way he conducts his therapy.

Attending Therapy made me realise a mental illness is a solvable problem and that you are not on your own. From the very start the therapist seemed to understand my issues very well and be taking about them made me realise the more you talk about them the more he can help. Taking the first steps and asking for help is very hard but well worth doing and I am very happy I did.

Thank you. I was in a very dark place last year and with your guidance, you’ve helped me back into the daylight and with the tools to manage with darker days if they ever come back. In Therapy you want someone who you who will listen in a non-judgmental way and who will guide you back to your true self. Paul did all those things.

Being able to talk through issues worrying about peoples perceptions of me. It has helped me relax more and not focus on what was hold me back as much and think more positively. Therapy has been very useful and anyone who feels they need it shouldn’t be afraid to say they need help. I would highly recommend paul as he creates a very friendly environment unlike other therapists we had previously.

Therapy helped me perspective in my mind process different emotions. This helped my confidence and felt back in control again. I would absolutely recommend this service to others. Paul is understanding and compassionate and opened my mind to a new way of life. I want to say thank you for all Paul has done for me.

Somebody completely separate from friends and family to talk to. Learning ways to deal with my troubles. Paul understood my issues really well to do with my anxiety. Although much was about my physical issues with IBS, indigestion, he still recognised what I was going through. Paul is very compassionate and empathetic. I felt very comfortable talking to him as he’s very approachable and friendly. I had seen other therapists previously which weren’t successful due to the nature of the person and not quite having a bond between you.

Therapy has been useful to talk through various events in my life and how they have affected me, helping me make sense of certain traits and my triggers. He has also explained how the brain works, helping to make sense of my anxiety and has begun giving coping skills.
Paul shows great amounts of empathy and understanding, shows genuine care and is vert good at making me feel comfortable, when the topic of conversation isn’t.

I feel more aware of the source of my personal challenges and significantly more confident since starting treatment. Paul has gotten to grips with my personal issues very quickly. I felt that he developed a solid understanding within a few sessions. Compared to previous talking therapies and treatments, Paul has made me feel empowered and supported in managing my issues.
I felt broke when I arrived and I’m happy to say that is no longer the case. Thank You

Paul allowed me space to consider my thought processes, understand how my brain worked and give me strategies to cope going forward. Hope was nurtured. We held useful conversations. I felt that it was the initial sessions which mostly allowed me to share my current position and I was greeted with understanding and sympathy which opened my eyes to see the reasons behind it.
Paul allows you the space to discuss challenges in a non-judgemental manner.

Paul’s application of CBT has had a profound effect on not only on my mental wellbeing, but a significant positive impact on my physical health – which has been unexpected, but most welcome.
Therapy is not always comfortable. I am very grateful to have been able to go on this journey with someone like Paul. Someone both gentle and objective that has helped me to identify and challenge some of my behaviours. Someone I can trust, who has been a steady hand to guide me through the process.
I would recommend this service to others because of its holistic nature. His physiological understanding has put some of my behaviours into context. This understanding has brought objectivity. His support through difficult areas has made them less scary, which in turn has enabled me to find acceptance and more confidence. His use of mindfulness and meditation have helped ground and secure these personal discoveries. (They also had the additional perk of significantly refocusing some chronic pain I have been experiencing). We know that the mind and the body are linked. Working with Paul has been an extremely positive experience that I would gladly recommend to others.