Michelle Banfield-Curran, BACP, NCPS

Michelle Banfield-Curran is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and has three years of professional experience. Michelle focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck and who want clearer direction for everyday life.

She offers a calm, respectful style and aims to create a space where people can speak honestly about difficult experiences. Michelle listens for repeating patterns that might be getting in the way. Together she and the client work out small, practical steps to make day-to-day life more manageable.

Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and struggles with self-esteem. Additional areas she supports include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family adjustment, body image, coping with cancer and caregiver strain, codependency, and separation or divorce issues.

Michelle uses a mix of therapeutic approaches such as attachment-based, client-centred, Jungian, mindfulness and narrative therapies. She adapts the conversation and plan to each person’s needs rather than using a single fixed method. Sessions are focused on understanding what matters to the client and finding realistic ways forward.

Michelle encourages people to take the first step even when it feels hard. She guides the initial match and helps clients set achievable goals, working at a pace that feels safe and useful for each person.

How these approaches work in online counselling

Attachment-based therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional patterns. It can help when someone struggles with trust, abandonment worries or repeating relationship cycles. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor, using empathic listening and open questions to help people find their own answers and build self-understanding.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust them if something does not fit or needs to change.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm available session types before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins if needed. It can also let people use audio-only options when video is difficult, or schedule appointments that fit around work or caregiving responsibilities. Registered or accredited professionals can work with clients remotely to focus on patterns, coping strategies and practical steps that aim to improve day-to-day functioning.