Pauline Banks , NCPS

Pauline Banks is a counsellor who draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas to help people work through difficult personal issues. She holds NCPS and has ten years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. Pauline aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person's strengths.

She often works with people facing relationship strain, family conflict and parenting pressures. Trauma and abuse, grief and coping with life changes are common themes she addresses. Anxiety, stress, depression and mood conditions including bipolar disorder are also within her focus.

Pauline uses practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy to build coping skills. She also uses attachment-based approaches to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is part of her toolkit for processing traumatic memories.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She listens for strengths and practical options, then helps people try small changes between sessions. Many clients work on communication, managing intense emotions, or rebuilding confidence and intimacy.

Pauline offers help for a wide range of concerns such as addiction, eating issues, anger, ADHD and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, ageing and chronic illness, and complex attachment or personality-related problems.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice repeating ways of relating and try new responses to feel safer in relationships. Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions, with the counsellor listening and reflecting so clients find their own solutions and strengths.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is practical and problem-focused, breaking down thoughts and behaviours to try small experiments that can ease anxiety and low mood. These approaches suit issues such as relationship difficulties, stress, trauma recovery and mood conditions, and they can be adapted to work online.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor will discuss goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can be reviewed as work progresses.

Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when helpful. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments, while still using attachment, client-centred and CBT techniques effectively.