About Michelle
Michelle Yang is an ACA counsellor with nine years of clinical experience based in Australia. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or big life changes. Michelle uses clear, practical conversation to help clients find steadier footing and take manageable steps forward.
Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what matters to each person right now. Michelle draws on cognitive behavioural tools to shift unhelpful thinking and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to clarify values and build purposeful action.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past connections shape current relationships. That work can help people repair trust, improve communication, and deepen emotional intimacy where needed. Dialectical behaviour strategies are used when stronger emotion regulation skills are helpful.
Michelle works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, grief, parenting strain, self-esteem struggles, sleep problems, anger, compassion fatigue and ADHD. She also supports people facing challenges related to adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image and blended-family dynamics. Sessions are offered in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Michelle aims to make therapy straightforward and useful, giving tools and short-term goals while also attending to deeper themes that affect day-to-day life.
Online approaches and flexible session formats
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify what matters to them and take small, values-based steps even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings are present. It is useful for anxiety, depression and decisions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behaviour changes, which often eases worry and improves daily routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and aims to build healthier ways of relating and communicating, often useful for trust and intimacy issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients choose techniques that match their goals, needs and preferences. She combines methods when that fits the person’s situation and reviews progress regularly to adjust the plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls suit in-depth sessions when face-to-face interaction matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for mid-day check-ins. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework discussion or when a written format helps someone reflect. These options let people access care from different places and schedules without travelling.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
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