About Michele
Michele Junges-Stainthorpe offers calm, practical support for adults facing anxiety, stress, grief and relationship strain. She is Michele Junges-Stainthorpe, a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Her style is straightforward and warm, with clear steps to help people feel steadier and more able to cope.
Michele tailors sessions to each person’s needs. She listens for patterns and helps people find small, workable changes. Sessions can include talking, practical exercises, reflective work and guided imagery depending on what feels helpful.
Background and approach
Her experience spans more than two decades in schools, voluntary settings, personal companies and independent practice. Michele has a BA in Counselling from Glasgow Caledonian University and a Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (BTEC Level 5) from South Tyneside College. She also holds a BA (Hons) in French, Russian and Politics.
Michele works with a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, ADHD, sleep problems, parenting strains, anger, self-esteem and mood difficulties. Phobias are included among the issues she addresses, and she adapts techniques to each person’s situation. Sessions are available in English and French, and Michele can work with people outside the United Kingdom.
She uses a mix of client-centred listening and structured techniques to help people build coping skills and make sense of past hurts.
Approaches that translate well online
Michele uses client-centred therapy to prioritise what matters to the person. That approach focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and understood, which can help with anxiety, self-esteem and relationship worries.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to spot unhelpful thinking and try practical changes. CBT works well for phobias, anxiety, sleep difficulties and stress because it gives clear steps to practise between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods to try. Decisions are made together so therapy fits the person rather than the other way round.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different rhythms of life. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises that use visual materials. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief reflections, check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family or travel schedules while keeping continuity of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French
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