About Michelle
Michelle Clark is an experienced counsellor with 28 years in the field and an AASW credential. She offers straightforward, compassionate support shaped by her own mental health journey and lived experience of domestic violence. Michelle focuses on helping people who want real change and honest, practical guidance.
Her style is direct but warm. She challenges unhelpful patterns while keeping sessions emotionally respectful. Conversations are plain and focused on what the person wants to achieve.
Background and approach
She aims to help people build self-worth, cope with anxiety and stress, and find forward movement after trauma. Michelle draws on several therapeutic approaches to suit different needs. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioural work to identify thinking habits that keep problems going.
Mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas help people tolerate difficult feelings without getting overwhelmed. She also offers client-centred listening that prioritises each person's pace and priorities. For people needing emotion regulation skills, elements of dialectical behaviour therapy may be included to teach practical coping tools.
The overall focus is practical change rather than jargon. Sessions are provided through a personal telehealth counselling practice in Australia. Michelle works with issues such as depression, bipolar conditions, panic, trauma and abuse recovery.
She also helps with body image, chronic illness and relationship and communication problems. The approach is collaborative and grounded in everyday language.
How Michelle’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting driven by them. It focuses on values and small committed actions to move life in a meaningful direction, which can help with anxiety and mood concerns. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy identifies unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and teaches practical skills to change them, useful for panic, depression and day-to-day stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which techniques to use. That collaborative decision-making helps tailor the sessions to what feels most useful for the individual.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls suit in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make counselling more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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