About Michele
Michele Junges-Stainthorpe offers calm, straightforward support for people struggling with anxiety and related problems. She writes in a warm, open way and focuses on helping people feel understood. Michele speaks English and French and brings 21 years of experience to sessions.
Michele adapts her approach to each person's needs. She uses conversational, practical methods so people can try things between sessions. She pays attention to life history and current stresses to help uncover what keeps problems going.
Background and approach
Her work covers a broad range of concerns. These include stress and anxiety, depression and bipolar mood issues, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, grief, parenting pressures, sleeping difficulties, anger, self‑esteem and career questions. She also supports people facing adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, and domestic violence impacts.
Michele combines talking therapies with focused techniques. Examples are client-centred listening, cognitive approaches to change unhelpful thoughts, dialectical skills for emotional regulation, psychodynamic ideas about past patterns, and hypnotherapy where appropriate. She helps people find practical steps to feel steadier day to day.
Her background includes work as a teacher and school counsellor in an international school, roles with personal and voluntary organisations, and independent practice. Michele holds a BA in Counselling from Glasgow Caledonian University, a Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (BTEC 5) from South Tyneside College, and a BA (Hons) in French, Russian and Politics.
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
How Michele's approaches work online
Michele commonly uses client-centred therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy in her online work. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person without judgement, helping them find their own answers and build self-trust. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect and offers practical exercises to change patterns that feed anxiety.She also draws on dialectical behaviour therapy ideas when emotional regulation is needed. DBT-based skills teach ways to manage strong emotions, tolerate distress and improve communication. Michele will talk with each person about which approaches might help and adapt them as the work progresses in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be delivered by video calls, by phone, via live chat or through text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or need less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging are helpful for short check-ins, written reflection and people who prefer typing. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit work, family and travel commitments while still focusing on meaningful progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French
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