About Shirley
Shirley Banton is a counsellor with 11 years of practice and a BACP registration. She offers online sessions that aim to help people feel less overwhelmed and more able to manage everyday pressures. Shirley presents a calm, reflective style and welcomes people who want steady, thoughtful support rather than quick fixes.
Her work begins with listening closely to what matters to the person in front of her. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s comfort.
Background and approach
Shirley uses a Person-Centred emphasis while drawing on other methods to meet each person’s needs. She has substantial experience helping people who have faced domestic violence, relational abuse, coercive control and long-term relational trauma. That background informs how she helps clients rebuild confidence and set healthier boundaries after harmful relationships.
Shirley also supports people dealing with anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, grief, and change. Her years in further and higher education give extra insight into pressures on students and educators during life transitions. In practical terms she blends reflective conversation with techniques from cognitive and solution-focused approaches when helpful.
The aim is to understand patterns, try out new ways of coping, and strengthen day-to-day resilience. Online sessions are offered in English and can suit people who need flexible access to therapy.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, non-judgemental space where the person sets the pace and direction. It helps people who need to feel heard and understood before making changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and introduces small practical experiments to test new ways of coping. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating difficulties.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try different tools together, adapting the approach as needs change in collaborative steps.
Online therapy delivers these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation; phone can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing written reflection, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, study and family commitments, while letting therapists use similar techniques to in-person work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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