About Michele
Michele Attias is a BACP counsellor with 20 years of experience who helps people facing anxiety, stress and life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make sessions feel calm and straightforward. Michele writes and coaches as well as counselling, so she brings practical tools and real-life guidance to conversations.
She takes a holistic view that looks at physical, emotional and social aspects of difficulty. Sessions are client-centred, which means she follows each person’s priorities and adapts methods to what works for them.
Background and approach
Michele mixes approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with emotion-focused work to suit each case. People often come for help with worry, grief, overwhelm, burnout and relationship or career strain. Michele also supports those dealing with trauma, addictions, self-esteem or parenting stress.
Her aim is to reduce overthinking and restore energy, focus and clearer decision-making skills. In practical terms she offers short or longer-term work depending on what someone needs. Conversations tend to be gentle, direct and goal-focused, with tools to improve concentration, time management and emotional regulation.
Michele encourages steps that feel doable rather than overwhelming. Sessions can be in English or Spanish and she accepts international clients. She combines counselling, coaching and material from her book to help people move from stuck to active change.
If someone is unsure where to begin, Michele supports them to set simple first steps and next actions.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. ACT is useful for anxiety, overthinking and feeling stuck because it focuses on small steps and clearer priorities.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for worry, low mood and sleep problems because it gives concrete techniques to try between sessions.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then tailor techniques from different methods. This is a collaborative process so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility for shorter or longer sessions and help people keep therapy going around work and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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