Pauline Rodgers, BACP

Pauline Rodgers offers a practical, flexible counselling style that draws on attachment-based, client-centred and solution-focused work. She is a BACP member with ten years' experience supporting adults and young people through difficult life moments. Pauline writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person.

Her sessions focus on current problems and on how past relationships shape present feelings. She helps people untangle stress, anxiety, depression and grief, and addresses relationship and family difficulties. She also supports people coping with trauma, addiction, intimacy issues and workplace strain.

Pauline adapts her approach to the person in front of her. She uses attachment ideas to look at patterns in close relationships, client-centred listening to reflect what matters to you, and solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable goals. This mix allows brief practical work or longer conversations depending on need.

People come to her for help with parenting pressures, caregiver stress, self-esteem, guilt and shame, and midlife or career transitions. She also works with multicultural concerns, discrimination, women's issues, LGBT matters and young adult issues.

Sessions can take different forms including video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, a prospective client completes a short questionnaire and then arranges sessions to fit their schedule. Pauline aims to make the process straightforward and focused on what the person wants to change.

Therapeutic approaches and online counselling

Pauline uses attachment-based work to explore how early and close relationships shape current feelings and reactions. This approach can help with repeated relationship patterns, attachment issues and intimacy-related concerns. She also uses client-centred counselling, which focuses on listening carefully and reflecting back what matters to you so you can find your own direction.

She combines these with solution-focused techniques that aim to identify small, practical steps and achievable goals. That method is useful for people who want clear, short-term changes alongside deeper relational work. Finding the right mix is part of the process, and Pauline works collaboratively to decide which approach fits your needs, goals and preferences.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and messaging suits ongoing, brief reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or day-to-day life while still accessing registered or accredited professionals and experienced therapists.