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Puja Attul

Profile / United Kingdom

Puja Attul, NCPS

United Kingdom

Accredited counsellor - Anxiety and stress

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  • CBT techniques
  • Values work
  • Attachment focus

About Puja

Puja Attul is an accredited counsellor (NCPS) with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, LGBT concerns, grief, and a wide range of life challenges. Puja works with practical problems as well as emotional struggles, and she writes plainly about tools that can be used day to day.

She blends humanistic listening with cognitive behavioural techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small, concrete changes people can make between meetings. The work can include looking at attachment patterns, exploring values, and practising new habits that reduce distress.

Puja draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help clients clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values. She also uses attachment-based ideas when relationship patterns and early bonds affect current stresses. Client-centred methods mean the counsellor follows the person’s concerns and pace rather than imposing a strict programme.

Practical tools are part of sessions: thought records, behavioural experiments, value-driven actions and simple coping exercises. Conversations are direct and focused on problems the client brings, such as sleep, eating, parenting strain, or work pressure. Puja helps people break cycles of avoidance, perfectionism and repeated negative thinking.

She accepts international clients and conducts work in English. Before booking, readers should confirm the current session options and scheduling process via the site’s online matching steps.

How Puja uses CBT, ACT and attachment ideas online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clearer on what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It is useful when life changes or values feel out of reach and for reducing avoidance that keeps problems stuck.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It suits problems like anxiety, low mood, sleep and repetitive thinking by breaking patterns into thoughts, feelings and behaviours to work on step by step.

Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication. They are used when relationship problems or attachment worries keep reappearing in adult life.

Choosing an approach is part of the work and the therapist will help decide what fits best. That choice is collaborative - based on the client’s goals, situation and preferences - and may change as progress is made.

Confirm current session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people take part from quieter surroundings or while on a break. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt tools such as thought records and behavioural experiments to the online setting so practical work continues between sessions.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHIV / AIDSHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingImmigration issuesImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPhobiasPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Existential TherapyGottman MethodMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

12+ years

Listed in

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she help with most often?

She works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, addictions and a broad list of life concerns including parenting and career strain.

How would she describe her therapeutic style?

Her style combines humanistic listening with practical cognitive behavioural tools, focusing on noticing thoughts and trying different behaviours to reduce distress.

How much experience does she have?

She has 12 years of experience working as a counsellor.

What credentials and location are on file?

She is listed with the credential NCPS and practises from the United Kingdom.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the UK work with her?

She accepts international clients; confirm session arrangements before booking.

How do her session formats work and how much do they cost?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time; please check the platform for current format and pricing details.

What are the first steps to begin?

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