About Michelle
Michelle King is a counsellor with 17 years of experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. Michelle aims to provide a respectful and compassionate space where people can talk about what is worrying them and start to find ways forward.
Her approach is person-focused and collaborative. She adapts conversations and plans to what each individual needs.
Background and approach
That can mean practical skills to manage anxiety or gentler, exploratory work for deeper pain such as attachment wounds or past abuse. Michelle draws on several well-known counselling approaches. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in relationships and how they affect day-to-day life.
Cognitive behavioural techniques help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Mindfulness and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy are used to build emotion regulation and tolerance for difficult feelings. Over 17 years Michelle has helped people with a broad range of concerns beyond anxiety and depression.
These include caregiver stress, communication problems, body image issues, grief around separation, guilt and shame, and feeling isolated or without purpose. Sessions are framed around realistic goals and clear steps people can practise between meetings. Her professional credential is BACP, which is noted in her profile.
Michelle offers sessions in English and works through online formats including video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Michelle often combines attachment-based therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy to help people understand relationship patterns and change unhelpful thoughts. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and closeness, which can be useful for anxiety, abandonment fears and attachment issues. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and gives practical steps to try between sessions.She also uses mindfulness and techniques from dialectical behaviour therapy to help with emotion regulation. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. DBT-informed skills support managing strong emotions and tolerating distress without making things worse. Choosing the right mix is a collaborative decision; the therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adapt the approach as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be a straightforward option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of support regardless of location.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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