About Pauline
Pauline Banks is a counsellor with over 10 years of experience who uses a warm, person-focused approach. She describes clients as the experts in their own stories and helps them draw on strengths to face difficult situations. Pauline works with people dealing with anxiety alongside relationship stress, grief and other life challenges.
She makes space for plain conversation about what is causing worry and strain. Sessions use straightforward questions and reflections to help people make sense of patterns and feelings.
Background and approach
Practical coping strategies are introduced when they fit a person's needs. Pauline draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships influence current reactions. She also uses client-centred methods to keep the pace and focus guided by the person in front of her.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and try small behaviour changes. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, addictions and mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar. She has experience supporting people with long-term illness, bereavement, and complex family arrangements like adoption and blended families.
Pauline holds NCPS as a credential and practises in the United Kingdom. She offers sessions in English by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. If someone prefers a flexible, conversational style that still uses evidence-based tools, Pauline can tailor the approach to their situation.
How Pauline blends therapeutic approaches for online work
Pauline uses attachment-based ideas to notice how early relationships shape current reactions and coping. This approach can help with relationship stress, attachment issues and feelings of abandonment by tracing patterns back to familiar dynamics.She also uses client-centred counselling to keep sessions focused on what matters most to the person. That means the pace, topics and goals are set collaboratively rather than imposed by the counsellor.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and test small behaviour changes. These tools can be useful for anxiety, low mood and stress by turning abstract worries into practical steps to try.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Pauline will discuss options and try methods that match a person's needs, goals and preferences. The process is collaborative and may shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people keep a face-to-face feel for longer sessions, phone can be easier when bandwidth varies, live chat works for shorter check-ins and text messaging suits ongoing support between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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