Michelle Banfield-Curran
Counselling for stress, anxiety and loss
About Michelle
Michelle Banfield-Curran works as a counsellor in the United Kingdom and brings three years of professional experience to her practice. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem concerns. Michelle aims to make the first step easier for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck in repeating patterns.
Her approach starts with listening. She offers a calm space to talk through difficult experiences and day-to-day struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what matters most to each person, with plans that reflect personal goals and rhythms. Michelle draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. She also uses client-centred methods that keep the person’s priorities central.
Narrative and Jungian approaches help people make sense of life stories and inner themes. Practical tools such as mindfulness are used where they help reduce anxiety and increase focus. Michelle pays attention to how relationships, family dynamics and past losses show up in everyday life.
She helps people notice unhelpful cycles and try small, manageable changes. She also works with concerns that can sit alongside core issues, including abandonment, blended family tensions, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control worries, and separation after divorce. Michelle aims to offer a respectful, sensitive and compassionate space for people to explore what matters to them.
If someone is unsure how to begin, she encourages a short matching process to pair people with an approach and schedule that suit their needs.
What Michelle works with
How Michelle works
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape present patterns. Online conversations can reveal attachment needs and help people practise different ways of relating within sessions and afterwards. Client-centred therapy keeps the person's goals at the heart of each meeting and offers a straightforward, supportive way to talk through what matters most. Narrative approaches focus on the stories people tell about themselves and help reframe difficult events into more manageable accounts.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's needs, goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as new issues come up or priorities shift, and the plan will be adjusted together.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and maintain eye contact, while phone sessions can be less demanding on bandwidth and easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions, or times when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving or travel commitments, and to try different formats to find what works best.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
