Michelle Banfield-Curran, BACP, NCPS

Michelle Banfield-Curran is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom. She has three years of professional experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. Michelle focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or difficulties within relationships. She invites a calm, respectful approach and encourages people to take the first step toward change.

Michelle offers space to talk through difficult experiences and everyday struggles. She listens for repeating patterns that may be keeping someone stuck. Conversations are shaped to the person’s needs so sessions stay practical and relevant.

Her work includes supporting people dealing with trauma and abuse, low self‑esteem, loss, and relationship strain. She also addresses concerns such as abandonment and attachment issues, blended family matters, body image, caregiver stress, and codependency. Michelle aims to help people find clearer choices and regain a sense of direction.

Michelle uses a range of approaches to suit different people. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Narrative and Jungian perspectives offer ways to tell and reframe personal stories. Mindfulness and client-centred techniques help people stay present and feel heard.

Sessions are adapted to each person, with plans made together around goals and pace. Michelle encourages small, manageable steps and supports people as they try new ways of coping. To begin, people follow the site’s Start Therapy process and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How Michelle’s approaches can work online

Michelle uses attachment-based, client-centred and narrative ideas in her work and these can translate well to online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating and can help when patterns of fear or avoidance appear in adult connections. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and building a trusting conversation so people feel able to reflect and try new steps. Narrative work helps people tell their story differently, identifying unhelpful themes and opening possibilities for change.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work with the person to match methods to their needs, goals and preferences. The first sessions are used to understand the issue, try out ways of working, and adjust the plan if needed.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as reducing travel time or allowing appointments during a lunch break. It also allows flexibility about whether people use video or phone, depending on what feels most manageable for concentration or bandwidth. Please confirm the current session formats before booking so the practical details meet your needs.