About Michelle
Michelle Copley is a counsellor with 12 years of experience who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works in a warm, conversational way to help people feel understood and to make starting therapy less daunting. She uses a mix of approaches chosen to suit each person.
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Michelle listens to what is happening, helps people gain new perspectives, and teaches techniques they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Her main approaches include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviours, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, which teaches skills for emotional regulation. She also draws on Emotionally-Focused and client-centred ideas to support relationships and self-understanding. Michelle has supported people with a wide range of concerns.
These include trauma and abuse, grief, relationship problems, addictions, sleep difficulties, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, depression, parenting strains, ADHD and other life changes. She works online only and offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and fees vary by location and therapist availability.
Michelle is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are held in English and international clients are not accepted. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
How Michelle uses practical approaches in online therapy
Michelle often draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to look at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. CBT helps people break unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to teach concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance. DBT is useful when people need tools for staying steady during intense moments and for improving emotional control.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. Together they shape a plan that matches the issues being addressed and the pace the person prefers.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or when writing helps the person reflect. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and everyday life while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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