About Michaela
Michaela Probert is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people feeling overwhelmed, low, or unsure about what to do next. She welcomes conversations about specific problems as well as general distress. Michaela aims to give clear time and space to listen, and to help clients reconnect with their strengths so they can make steady change.
She uses a mix of practical tools and reflective work. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Michaela offers compassion and a non-judgemental attitude while helping people learn techniques to manage stress and anxiety, improve sleep, or handle relationship tensions. Her training and approach draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centred principles, and Jungian influences.
That blend lets her tailor sessions to each person’s needs, using behaviour-focused exercises when useful and deeper exploratory work when required. With five years of experience and BACP registration, she combines practical strategies with space for reflection.
Typical concerns she works with include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, identity and LGBT matters, trauma and abuse, and attention-related difficulties. Michaela offers online options so people can choose what suits them best. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
How chosen approaches work in online counselling
Michaela often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still move towards what matters to them. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress and low mood because it focuses on action despite discomfort.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviours. CBT offers clear exercises for sleep problems, anxiety and anger, and can produce practical changes in day-to-day routines.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Michaela will discuss goals and preferences, then try methods that suit the person in front of her. That means sessions can be more active and skills-focused at times, and more exploratory at others, depending on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quieter option, and messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing reflection. These choices increase flexibility and help people keep continuity with therapy when schedules or travel make in-person meetings difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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