About Michael
Michael Wilkes-Spellman is a counsellor who supports people dealing with anxiety, stress, relationship and intimacy difficulties, grief, trauma and a wide range of life transitions. He brings 13 years of experience and works part time, offering sessions on weekday evenings. Michael holds NCPS, which is shown after his name as a professional credential.
He uses an integrated style that adapts to each person's needs. In practice this means listening first, then agreeing clear aims for the work.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on understanding how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going, and on building practical ways to change those patterns. Michael draws mainly from client-centred and cognitive behavioural approaches, and also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing where helpful. He aims to help people notice unhelpful thinking, try small experiments in behaviour, and develop kinder self-care habits.
He explains things plainly and sets manageable steps between sessions. His background includes ongoing training since beginning counselling work in 2011. He works with adults, couples and older adults on issues such as career change, compassion fatigue, body image, adoption and foster care matters, and recovery from domestic violence or abuse.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Michael works with clients in the United Kingdom and does not accept international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions to suit evening schedules.
How Michael’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centred work places the person’s experience at the heart of each session. The counsellor listens carefully, reflects what has been said, and helps clients clarify what they want to change. This approach can help with relationship concerns, grief and feeling heard when life feels overwhelming.Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It uses practical exercises and short experiments to shift unhelpful patterns, which works well for anxiety, stress and mood problems. Mindfulness therapy adds attention-based exercises that teach ways to reduce reactivity and notice difficult feelings without getting swept away.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to agree goals and try different techniques until something fits the client’s needs and preferences. Sessions are tailored and reviewed as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, evening routines and work breaks.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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