Online sessions across the UK
I'm Paul Burrows, an addiction counsellor with lived experience of trauma and recovery. We work at a pace that suits you, and nothing has to be settled in the first session.
MSc Psychology · FDAC specialist · Online sessions available UK-wide
How I can help
Most people come to counselling when something has already got heavier than they can carry alone. You don't need a diagnosis or a clear plan to start.
Support around drink, drugs, cannabis and other patterns that have stopped feeling like choices.
Find out more →Working with the experiences and fears that keep the body on alert, at a pace you can manage.
Find out more →A way of understanding the different "parts" of you that want different things, and getting them to work together.
Find out more →For when part of you wants to change and part of you doesn't. Motivational Interviewing takes both seriously.
Find out more →Help with relationship difficulties, communication and the impact of domestic abuse.
Find out more →Narrative, CBT, DBT, behavioural and more. We'll choose together what fits.
See all →My approach
"Part of you wants to change, and part of you doesn't. Both are telling you something useful." Working with ambivalence, one of my core ideas
From the blog
Plain-English articles on the brain, recovery, families and the parts of us that keep us safe.
Brain & body
What your brain's alarm system is trying to tell you, and why fight, flight, freeze and fawn aren't choices.
Read article →Motivational Interviewing
Working with ambivalence, when part of you wants to change and part of you doesn't.
Read article →Client story
A journey through alcohol dependency using Motivational Interviewing.
Read article →Parenting
Why some parents who have lost a child find it hard to feel close to the next one, and how therapy helps.
Read article →Free tools
Practical things you can use today, whether or not we ever work together.
Online sessions are available across the UK. Reaching out is the first step, and it's a good one.
Understand the development of complex trauma in your life, discover how addictions are formed and find healthy ways to cope, or learn how to parent yourself and your child with complex trauma.