About Michelle
Michelle Burke is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people dealing with stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression and the challenge of big life changes. Michelle uses a respectful, sensitive and compassionate approach in sessions.
Michelle has four years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation. She adapts conversations and plans to match each person’s needs rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all model.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and move at a practical pace. Her work often looks at underlying patterns that affect current feelings and choices. That can include attachment concerns, experiences of abandonment, issues connected to adoption and foster care, or troubles with blended family dynamics.
She also supports people coping with caregiver burden, guilt and shame, or the fallout from separation and infidelity. Practical matters such as money worries, communication problems and control issues are addressed alongside emotional concerns. Michelle pays attention to cultural background and multicultural issues when they shape a person’s experience.
Therapy aims to make day-to-day life more manageable, not only to explain past events. Michelle encourages people to take small steps and to try different ways of coping. She will help set clear, everyday goals and check progress together.
The focus is on honest conversation, steady support and developing tools people can use after sessions end.
Psychodynamic approaches and online therapy options
Psychodynamic therapy looks at how earlier relationships and experiences shape current feelings and reactions. It helps people spot repeated patterns, understand why certain situations trigger them, and make different choices in daily life.Work in sessions may also focus on attachment concerns and how past losses or adoption and foster care experiences affect trust and closeness now. This can help with relationship strain, abandonment worries and long-standing issues that affect mood and self-worth.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt techniques as therapy continues. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to practical aims as well as emotional insight.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls suit longer, face-to-face style conversations while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging can be useful for quick reflections, ongoing support between sessions or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options offer greater flexibility for fitting therapy around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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