Paula J Williams

Two decades of experience in working with all adult client groups and issues, alongside 15 years' experience of providing supervision to individuals and groups working with all clients groups and issues. I am also a trainer, having taught on the Persona courses (Certificate, PG Diploma) for a decade, and also as a guest lecturer for Roehampton and UEL, and a writer, as co-author of the 5th Edition of First Steps in Counselling as well as several published chapters.

I decided to train as a therapist after working for several years with survivors of abuse and sexual assault, and continue to work in this area as well as supervising counsellors working for charities such as a Women's Aid, Rape Crisis and charities for survivors of CSA, and have provided Critical incident/Trauma response support for agencies such as DWP and the Scottish parliament. As well as working for agencies working with clients with any issue, I have also worked extensively in the field of perinatal mental health, both as a therapist and as a supervisor, and I have worked for several LGBTQ+ charities also in both of those capacities. I have been a member of Rainbow Therapy in Scotland for several years, am a mentor for Pink Therapy, and am very experienced in working with Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity and in working with people who identify as neurodivergent. 

I am a Senior Accredited member of NCPS and was awarded Fellowship of the organisation for services to counselling in the UK.

I am also an individual member of PCE-Europe

NCPS and PCE-Europe