Pauline Banks

Pauline Banks is a counsellor with NCPS and over ten years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She approaches therapy with respect for each person's story and an emphasis on building from existing strengths. She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and human, and she welcomes people who are nervous about starting. Pauline offers support for grief and end-of-life concerns alongside other issues she commonly sees.

Her work often focuses on relationships and family matters, including parenting and blended family challenges. She also helps people facing trauma and abuse, addiction, anxiety, depression and bipolar-related concerns. Practical issues like work stress, career decisions, communication problems and coping with life changes are part of her day-to-day practice.

Pauline uses approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and EMDR where appropriate. In sessions she listens first, then works with you to try techniques that feel useful. She avoids jargon and prefers clear, simple steps you can take between meetings.

She has experience supporting people dealing with chronic illness, cancer, ageing and grief, and can help where attachment, abandonment or adoption issues affect wellbeing. Her practice also addresses eating and intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem and ADHD-related challenges.

Pauline asks clients to choose the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to begin. The NCPS credential is listed as provided in her profile and she works from the United Kingdom.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape our sense of safety and connection. It helps people notice patterns from early bonds and try different ways of relating in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression and stress. EMDR uses guided attention to help reduce the intensity of distress linked to traumatic memories and can be offered when trauma processing is needed.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels manageable. Together they decide whether to focus on attachment patterns, practical CBT skills or trauma processing like EMDR, and they review progress as they go.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example, a shorter remote check-in can be scheduled during a lunch break, and audio-only conversations can be useful where less bandwidth or not being on camera helps. Registered or accredited professionals often adapt exercises, homework and grounding practices so they work in everyday settings, helping clients apply what they practise in between sessions.