Pauline Banks, NCPS

Pauline Banks is a counsellor who draws on a person-centred outlook to help people move through difficult times. She works from the view that clients know their own stories and already carry strengths to build on. Pauline's approachable style aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who may be anxious about beginning therapy.

With ten years of experience, Pauline has supported people facing relationship problems, family conflict and parenting challenges. She also works with trauma and abuse, grief, stress and anxiety. Her practice includes support for addiction, mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar, and concerns around self-esteem and anger.

Pauline uses a mix of approaches in sessions, including attachment-based work to look at relationship patterns and cognitive behavioural ideas to spot and change unhelpful thinking. She also draws on dialectical behaviour therapy techniques for emotion regulation and EMDR when trauma processing is needed.

People bring practical life issues too, such as career stress, compassion fatigue, chronic illness and the complexities of adoption or blended families. She is experienced in helping with neurodiversity questions, ADHD and autism related matters, and with ageing and geriatric issues that affect later life.

Pauline is qualified with NCPS and practices in the United Kingdom. She offers sessions in English and asks people to follow the usual sign-up steps to begin therapy.

How different approaches work in online therapy

Pauline combines attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioural tools to help people spot relationship patterns and change unhelpful thoughts. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current reactions, which can help with intimacy and family concerns. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing thoughts and behaviours, which is useful for anxiety, depression and stress.

She also uses elements of dialectical behaviour therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills when feelings are intense. Finding the best mix of approaches is part of the work together; the therapist will discuss goals and preferences and tailor methods to what the person needs and wants.

If you are considering online therapy, check the available session formats before booking as this profile does not list specific options. Online work can make sessions easier to fit into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that suits. It can also make it simpler to continue therapy across life changes, so practical access and regular contact are easier to maintain. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists will help decide which methods and arrangements suit each person.