About Michele
Michele Findley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress or life changes. She offers a calm and straightforward presence to talk through worries about mood, relationships, grief or low self-worth. Michele works in a way that respects neurodiversity and values each persons individual story.
Sessions focus on what matters to the client, whether that is reducing panic, managing addiction, coping with chronic illness, or rebuilding after trauma.
Background and approach
She uses clear techniques that a person can try between appointments. With seven years of experience Michele draws on a mix of approaches to match the person in front of her. She uses cognitive tools to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based ideas to handle painful feelings, and relational work to repair closeness and trust.
The emphasis is on practical steps and honest conversation rather than labels. People can expect a respectful, non-judgemental space where goals are set together. Michele supports those dealing with bereavement, parenting strain, career stress, LGBT issues, ADHD and compassion fatigue among other concerns.
She also works with people managing long-term conditions and complex life circumstances. Michele offers sessions in English and works with clients in the UK and internationally. She holds BACP registration, and she will help clients find the right pace and strategies for lasting day-to-day change.
Approach-focused therapy carried out online
Michele commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it can be useful for anxiety, avoidance and coping with chronic conditions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying hands-on strategies to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the journey and Michele treats this as a collaborative process. She will discuss different ways of working, try techniques together, and adjust the plan to fit a clients goals and preferences rather than following a fixed formula.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility limits. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual exercises, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat and messaging allow short check-ins and written reflection. These options make therapy more flexible and help people keep continuity when life is busy or changing.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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