About Michelle
Michelle Dunne is a Person-Centred counsellor and a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She draws on a warm, accepting style to help people who are feeling stressed, anxious or overwhelmed by life changes. Michelle aims to create a space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgement.
She encourages clients to speak freely and listens closely to what matters most to them. Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and on finding practical steps that feel achievable.
Background and approach
Michelle uses motivational interviewing techniques alongside a person-centred stance to support readiness for change. Michelle has worked with grief, loss and sudden bereavement in previous roles, so she is comfortable sitting with pain and helping people find movement through mourning. She also supports people dealing with addictions, relationship strain and low mood, and addresses concerns like sleep, appetite and self-esteem.
As a late-diagnosed autistic woman, Michelle values neurodiversity and welcomes people from a range of backgrounds, sexual orientations and family arrangements. She is experienced with LGBT concerns and with the challenges of caregiving and compassion fatigue. Her training includes a Bachelor of Education with Qualified Teacher Status, diplomas in counselling up to Level 5, and formal study in motivational interviewing.
Michelle works from the UK and offers sessions in English to national and international clients.
Person-Centred care and motivational support online
Michelle uses Person-Centred Therapy to focus on listening and understanding. This approach means sessions centre on the person rather than a set of techniques, helping people feel heard and accepted as they talk through worries like anxiety and grief.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people consider change. This method involves gentle, guided conversations that explore a person's goals and ambivalence, and it can help with things like addiction, career shifts or improving self-care.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each client to decide which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. That choice is reviewed as therapy progresses and can be adapted over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and body language, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit around busy days or offer shorter check-ins. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, family or travel while still accessing regular support from registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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