Pauline Banks, NCPS
10 years in practice
Pauline Banks is a counsellor who blends gentle, practical talking therapy with structured tools to help people through difficult times.
License and registration
- NCPS
- NCS23-01335 · expires March 2026
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Pauline
Pauline Banks is a counsellor who blends gentle, practical talking therapy with structured tools to help people through difficult times. She works from an understanding that each person knows their own story best and brings ten years of professional experience to sessions. Pauline holds NCPS as a credential and offers respectful, down-to-earth support.
She uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centred approaches to explore how early relationships shape current patterns. These approaches help people who struggle with connection, abandonment concerns, and communication problems.
Background and approach
Pauline also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy techniques to teach coping skills for anxiety, depression, anger, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often shortened to EMDR, is another method she includes when trauma and abuse are a focus. It is used alongside other approaches to reduce the intensity of painful memories and their effects on daily life.
Pauline adapts sessions to each person rather than applying a single method to everyone. She supports people with a wide range of concerns, including relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, addictions, self-esteem, chronic illness, and neurodiverse conditions such as autism and ADHD. Pauline aims to make therapy straightforward and practical, with clear steps to work on between sessions.
Sessions are available remotely from the United Kingdom in English. Pauline encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed by life changes or long-standing difficulties to consider a first step and complete the brief matching questionnaire to begin.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Pauline lists on their public professional profile, 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 counseling
- 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 names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds influence present relationships and helps people who struggle with trust, abandonment or connection to form healthier ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the person's own pace, which can make it easier to open up about sensitive topics during remote sessions. EMDR involves targeted processing of traumatic memories and can be delivered remotely alongside other methods to reduce the emotional charge of past events.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and past experiences and then suggest a plan. That plan can combine methods and will be adjusted over time so the person feels involved and understood throughout the process.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls are helpful when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options make therapy more flexible for people managing work, parenting or health commitments.
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Questions people ask
What issues does Pauline focus on?
She helps people with relationship difficulties, family and parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, stress, addiction issues, grief and self-esteem problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Pauline combines Attachment-Based and Client-Centred work with practical CBT and DBT techniques to teach skills for emotion regulation and behaviour change.
How much experience does she have?
Pauline has ten years of professional experience working with a broad range of emotional and relational concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with NCPS and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients receive therapy?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are provided to people in the United Kingdom.
What session formats does she offer and how does cost work?
Pauline offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
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