Thank you, this is a helpful way of looking at it. There are lots of solid Biblical elements that have been brought together. I guess the possible error or misapplication is when this is held up as a ritual to get healing. To be fair, the people I know who have engaged in this type of healing ministry are always expectant to see the Holy Spirit at work. In this sense, their openness to the Holy Spirit guiding things is not formulaic. I don’t have a problem with this at all, but I always hear different things about the confessing and repenting for ancestral sins which confuses me. Your insight from counselling practices is really interesting for me, that this concept isn’t just a niche charismatic idea, but one that is taken in other contexts.
As far as my own experience goes, I have one story that would suggest that there’s something to confession and repentence for ancestral sins, but likewise it might be that God broke through but in a different way. All my life, until the age of 27, I experienced horrible demonic nightmares. They would be incredibly oppressive, and I’d feel the dark presence of the enemy in them, as well as being physically pinned down within the dream. I had an opportunity for prayer ministry, which I took. The two women praying for me asked if anyone in my family had been involved in the occult. I said that my grandmother had been involved in seances, tea leaf reading, tarot etc. One woman felt prompted by the Holy Spirit that we needed to ‘cut off’ the spiritual powers that my ancestor had opened a door to through her occult practices. I had to confess and repent for my grandmother’s sins in this process. They then prayed a prayer to close the 3rd eye in my life. I never had a nightmare like that since. I truly believe I was set free on that day. So that’s the process I went through. Whether that process was the means of obtaining freedom, or whether God worked on that day despite the process, I can’t tell. I know that God worked though!
Thank you, @lakshmi I agree, that we are set free by Jesus’ work on the cross and that our eternal salvation is always secured. I really appreciate what you’ve shared here too.
What I’ve heard in the past is that whilst we are set free, we’re not always “walking in that freedom”. This is where prayer ministries step in to help someone break anything that holds them back from freedom. I’d be interested if you’ve ever heard that take on things? I haven’t studied this theology greatly, but from what I understand, the curse isn’t directly from God, but from Satan. Is this possible? I feel fairly out of my depth now as I consider these things 
This is a really positive way to approach things. I do think there could be a risk of becoming fearful about generational curses if something is wrong in our life. These passages should be a great focus in our daily life.
This is a whole other issue I’m confused about. Is binding spirits a Biblical concept? From what I’ve seen, it’s a separate practice to expelling demons. Binding is more of a ‘temporary block on their powers’ from what I can tell. I have yet to understand this from a scriptural point of view.