About Michael
Michael Purvis is a counsellor with three years' experience helping people face anxiety, stress and relationship difficulties. He is a BACP-registered practitioner based in the United Kingdom. Michael aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so people can begin to feel more in control sooner.
Michael works with a wide range of anxiety-related concerns. He supports people coping with panic attacks, social anxiety, obsessive thoughts, and phobias. He also helps when stress leads to burnout, low mood or depression, or when life changes leave someone feeling lost.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. He mixes evidence-informed methods with listening that helps clients make sense of their experience. Work can include looking at unhelpful thought patterns, values-based planning, and building new ways of relating to others.
Michael also offers coaching-style support for practical goals. This can cover career direction, health and wellbeing, or creating better work-life balance. He breaks larger aims into small steps and helps people stay accountable to those changes.
People who choose Michael often want clear tools and a calm, down-to-earth approach. He adapts his style to suit each person’s pace and preferences. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, making it possible to fit therapy around everyday life.
How Michael’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, avoidance and finding direction after life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours, which is useful for panic, phobias and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current ways of relating, helping with trust, intimacy and ongoing attachment difficulties.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michael will discuss options and adapt methods to a person's needs, goals and preferences. Together they set aims and review what works, adjusting pace and techniques as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions suit people who need less bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity of care when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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