Pauline Banks, NCPS
Pauline Banks uses person-centred and attachment-aware methods to help people facing emotional and life challenges.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and Abuse
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About Pauline
Pauline Banks uses person-centred and attachment-aware methods to help people facing emotional and life challenges. She brings ten years of professional experience and an NCPS credential to her practice. Pauline writes in a straightforward way and aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable.
She focuses on relationship and family matters, trauma and abuse, and parenting strains. People also come to her for anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar challenges, addictions, grief and self-esteem work.
Background and approach
Pauline supports those dealing with intimacy concerns, eating issues, anger, career questions and compassion fatigue. Her approach treats the client as the expert in their own life. Pauline listens first, then helps people notice patterns shaped by attachment and past experiences.
She uses cognitive behavioural ideas for practical changes and skills, and draws on EMDR and dialectical tools when appropriate. Sessions aim to be practical and grounded. Pauline helps clients develop coping tools, clearer communication, and steps to manage emotions day to day.
She also addresses specific situations like adoption and foster care concerns, ageing issues, chronic illness, and neurodiversity-related needs. People can expect collaborative planning in sessions. Pauline works at a measured pace, balancing skill-building with processing difficult memories.
She encourages small, achievable steps so progress is easier to recognise over time. Her practice operates in the United Kingdom and sessions are delivered in English. Pauline supports people who want to work on attachment wounds, life transitions, and rebuilding relationships with themselves and others.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| NCPS | NCS23-01335 | March 2026 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
Costs are shown on the partner platform before you commit. If cost is a concern, ask about reduced-fee options.
Focus areas and approaches
What Pauline works with
Everything Pauline lists, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Pauline lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Pauline will discuss your history, current goals and preferences and help decide which methods to try. That plan can change as you learn what helps most, and she blends approaches to suit the person rather than using a single method for everyone.
Online therapy with Pauline is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video helps when visual connection and tone matter, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets you share thoughts between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional work.
Frequently asked
What issues does Pauline commonly help with?
She helps people with relationship and family tensions, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, anxiety, stress, depression and bipolar challenges.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centred and collaborative, drawing on attachment ideas to understand relational patterns and strengths.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of professional experience working with a wide range of emotional and life issues.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She holds NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees and starting therapy arranged?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time; to start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
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