Pauline Banks, NCPS

Pauline Banks offers a warm, person-centred way of working that starts with listening. She uses client-centred ideas alongside evidence-informed techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety and grief. Pauline's approach aims to build on each person's strengths so they can face difficult changes and painful memories with more confidence.

She has ten years of experience supporting people with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, and parenting difficulties. She also helps with addictions, eating concerns, anger, bipolar and depression, and challenges linked to career or self-esteem. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, adoption and foster care, chronic illness, and neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome.

In sessions Pauline blends practical skills with emotional understanding. She may use cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful patterns and DBT skills to manage strong emotions. EMDR is part of her toolkit for processing traumatic memories when appropriate. The aim is always to find strategies that fit each person's life and goals.

Pauline works from the United Kingdom and holds NCPS as a listed credential. She frames therapy as a collaboration - the client brings their story and she helps guide the process. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, focusing on small, achievable steps.

If you are wondering whether to begin, the first step is simply to reach out and start the process. She encourages people to take that step and will support them through early sessions and planning for what comes next.

How Pauline brings therapeutic approaches online

Pauline commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build safer ways of relating. This approach is useful for concerns about abandonment, attachment issues and difficulties forming intimacy.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and to teach practical strategies for anxiety, depression and stress. When emotions feel overwhelming she may introduce Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills to support emotional regulation and coping in the moment.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Pauline works collaboratively, discussing options and agreeing a plan that fits each person's goals and preferences. She reviews progress and adjusts methods as needed so the work stays relevant and useful.

Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or people prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging can suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on real progress.