About Pauline
Pauline Banks uses relationship-focused, trauma-informed approaches to help people who are struggling with life changes and difficult emotions. She works from a client-centred stance that treats each person as the expert in their own story. Pauline holds an NCPS credential and has ten years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
She helps people with relationship and family tensions, parenting challenges, and problems that come from past abuse or trauma.
How Pauline works
Other common concerns she supports include stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar difficulties, addiction, grief and self-esteem issues. She also works with issues around intimacy, eating, anger and career strain. Pauline draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape adult relationships.
She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural changes. She also uses elements of dialectical behaviour work and EMDR for trauma when appropriate. Sessions aim to be practical and straightforward.
Pauline listens, helps people spot strengths, and supports them to try new ways of coping. She offers coaching-style support when clients want clear steps and goals, and a gentler client-centred approach when people need space to make sense of things. Work is offered in English to people in the United Kingdom.
Formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
Pauline lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Pauline works with
The areas below are the ones Pauline selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Pauline’s approaches work online
Pauline commonly uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current bonds and helps people change patterns that cause conflict. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes in behaviour to reduce anxiety or low mood.She adapts these approaches to an online setting and works collaboratively to find the best fit. During the first discussions she will listen to your goals, talk through different ways of working and agree a plan together. That shared decision-making helps shape whether short-term, solution-focused steps or a longer exploration is most suitable.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for those with busy lives. Video calls let people read facial cues and use visual tools, while phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching or when writing things out feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring duties and other commitments, and allow a steady continuity of support with registered or accredited professionals.
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