About Michelle
Michelle Fear is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses relationship-focused approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety and grief. She holds membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and has three years of professional experience. Michelle aims to offer calm, respectful support at a pace that suits each person.
She works in a straightforward, compassionate way and adapts conversations to individual needs. Sessions focus on what is happening now and where patterns may come from.
Background and approach
People are encouraged to name their feelings and try practical steps to reduce overwhelm. Michelle draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas to make sense of relationship difficulties and family problems. She also uses psychodynamic and trauma-focused approaches when people want to look at deeper roots of distress such as past loss or abuse.
These methods inform how she frames questions and plans work together. Common topics include bereavement, family conflict, identity and self-esteem, and coping after trauma or separation. She also helps with issues like abandonment feelings, dissociation, shame and isolation.
Sessions are conversational and aim to build clearer choices and steadier day-to-day coping. Michelle encourages people to take small, manageable steps. She explains options and works with each person to set realistic goals.
The focus is on practical progress, understanding patterns, and helping people feel more able to move forward.
How attachment and trauma approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships, attachment wounds, and how those patterns affect everyday stress and connection. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor. It prioritises being heard and respected, and helps people find their own solutions through a supportive, non-judgemental conversation.Finding the right approach is usually a collaborative process. The counsellor will discuss your goals, past experiences and preferences, and then suggest which methods to try first. Plans are reviewed together so the work can shift if something is not helpful.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, reflection between sessions, or people who find writing easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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