About Michael
Michael Dwyer is a counsellor with 11 years of professional practice in the United Kingdom. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, loss and depression. He also helps those dealing with relationship problems, sleep difficulties, parenting strain and compassion fatigue.
He draws on a blend of talking approaches to meet each person's needs. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical. People can expect space to talk, help to notice unhelpful patterns, and ideas to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Michael uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to tackle worries and unhelpful thinking. He also uses client-centred listening and techniques from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy when emotional regulation is needed. These methods are selected to fit the issue and the person rather than applied rigidly.
His wider focus includes areas such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image and chronic health challenges. He supports people affected by trauma and abuse and those coping with major life changes, cancer and caregiver stress. He can also help with anger, self-esteem and communication problems.
Sessions are conducted in English and Michael works with clients in the UK and with international clients. He holds BACP accreditation and brings over a decade of experience to sessions that aim to be calm, practical and focused on what matters to the individual.
How Michael uses therapeutic approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then taking meaningful action in line with personal values. It can help with anxiety, stress and difficulties adjusting to change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns and can help people understand repeated relationship difficulties and attachment worries.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan if something does not fit, aiming for an approach that feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging allows ongoing brief contact and reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or health commitments while still accessing a consistent course of support from registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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