About Michelle
Michelle Jo is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She combines practical tools with calm, steady guidance to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on small steps that add up to real change.
She uses mindfulness practices such as breathing techniques, body scans and guided meditation to help people ground themselves in difficult moments.
Background and approach
Cognitive and behavioural tools are introduced to shift unhelpful thinking and break negative patterns. She also draws on attachment-informed ideas when exploring relationship and intimacy issues. Michelle values collaboration.
She treats each person as the expert in their own life and offers psychoeducation to make patterns clearer. Sessions may include assertiveness work and communication skills to improve day-to-day interactions. Coaching elements are used when people want practical plans for change.
Her wider focus includes grieving, addiction, sleep problems, parenting strain and burnout from caregiving or compassionate work. She also supports people facing chronic illness, cancer or major life transitions, and works with issues such as abandonment, codependency and dissociation. Sessions are offered in English and available to international clients.
Michelle aims to create a calm space where people can practise new skills, build confidence and move toward goals at their own pace.
How therapy approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that line up with what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviours to reduce distress and improve sleep, mood and daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and helps people develop safer, more connected ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and together they will try methods that fit. Sessions can mix elements from different approaches to meet practical needs, such as skills for managing panic alongside exploration of relationship patterns.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are a lower-bandwidth option for a shorter check-in. Live chat or text messaging can suit brief updates, journalling prompts or people who prefer writing. These formats help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while still working on the same therapeutic goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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