About Michelle
Michelle Freeman is a counsellor with 13 years' experience who works online from the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and describes a flexible, person-focused way of working.
Michelle commonly supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and phobias and she offers practical help for sleep difficulties, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy problems, and ADHD-related struggles. Her approach adapts to what each person needs at the time.
Background and approach
Sessions are calm, straightforward and paced to the individual. Michelle uses a combination of talking therapies and body-based techniques to help reduce distress and build coping skills. Michelle draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take values-led steps.
She also uses Client-Centred ideas to keep the focus on the person's experience. For people with intense trauma memories, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is part of the toolkit she may use alongside other approaches. Clients can expect simple, practical strategies to manage flashbacks, nightmares, compulsive behaviours and panic.
She also works with longer-term issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment fears, body image and codependency. Sessions can involve discussion, guided exercises and, when helpful, creative or hypnotherapy-informed techniques. Michelle offers video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging sessions.
She accepts international clients in English and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to therapist availability.
How Michelle blends proven approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values rather than getting stuck in avoidance. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and change troublesome patterns. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method used to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and the strong emotions they carry.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide what to try first and review progress so the plan can change if needed. This collaborative process helps find what fits each person's situation.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments while still using ACT, CBT or EMDR techniques as needed.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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