About Michelle
Michelle Corrigan is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works in a warm, interactive way and treats each person as an individual. Her style is straightforward and practical so people can talk about what matters now and take steps forward.
Sessions start from a person-centred place, focusing on the here and now and the experiences that led someone to seek help. Conversation is the main tool, though she sometimes brings in movement or energetic techniques when it feels helpful.
Background and approach
The aim is to identify what is blocking growth and plan small changes that can be put into practice. Michelle pays attention to both outer pressures and inner experience. She will talk through what is causing distress and notice how thoughts, feelings and the body respond.
That makes it easier to spot patterns and try different ways of responding to them. Her training is rooted in person-centred and humanistic approaches, and she practises an integrative style that draws on attachment-based ideas and emotion-focused work. Michelle holds membership of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, BACP.
She offers conversations that aim to be supportive and empowering. People who come to Michelle often want help with anxiety, grief, relationship difficulties, self-esteem or life changes. If someone is ready to make a change, she will work alongside them to find practical next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at connection styles and helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships, which can be useful for anxiety and relationship difficulties.Client-centred therapy places the person at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people find their own solutions, useful when someone needs to explore feelings and build self-trust.
Cognitive behavioural techniques look at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. They help people spot unhelpful thinking and try small, practical experiments to reduce anxiety or shift mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try. That collaborative process means the style of sessions can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and flexibility across the week. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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