About Michelle
Michelle Allard is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She works with issues like grief, anger, addictions, self-esteem and coping with life changes. Michelle uses a calm, attentive manner to help people feel heard and understood.
Her approach aims to empower people to find practical ways forward. Michelle blends methods rather than following a single model. She pays close attention to how earlier experiences shape current thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
This helps people untangle repeating patterns that interfere with daily life and close relationships. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. Michelle believes clients are the experts in their own stories and focuses on building trust before moving into problem-solving.
She offers both shorter, focused work and longer-term support depending on what a person needs. Her clinical practice draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centred principles and cognitive behavioural techniques. These are used to address practical symptoms and emotional themes, and to build coping skills for day-to-day life.
Michelle has four years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which is listed as a professional credential. She works with a wide range of concerns and accepts international clients in English.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships influence current emotional patterns and helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships. It is useful for people who notice repeating relationship struggles or difficulty trusting others.Client-centred therapy places emphasis on being heard and accepted. The therapist listens without judgement and follows the person's pace, which can help when someone needs space to explore feelings and build self-worth.
Cognitive behavioural techniques look at unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and teach practical strategies to change them. These tools are often used for anxiety, low mood and stress to create clear steps for coping in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try approaches that match the person's needs and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family or travel and make it easier to maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- 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
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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