About Michelle
Michelle Emsley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress and anxiety, depression, relationship problems, grief and other life changes. Michelle aims to make the first step easier by offering steady, compassionate support as people begin to talk through difficult moments.
She believes clients are the experts on their own lives and draws on their strengths. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on practical steps that can be taken between meetings.
Background and approach
The work is personalised to each person rather than following a one-size-fits-all script. Michelle uses client-centred methods to create space for people to tell their story and feel heard. She also offers cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments that change day-to-day habits.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting swept away by them and reconnect with what matters to them. Issues she commonly supports include abandonment, family of origin concerns, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness or pain, and problems linked to separation or addiction.
Michelle also helps people manage practical life transitions such as ageing, blended family adjustments and cancer-related changes. Her approach is gentle and straightforward. She listens, reflects and works with each person to set realistic goals.
Michelle aims to help people build coping skills they can use long after sessions end.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Michelle draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and refocus on values and small actions that matter. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at thought patterns and behaviours, testing out different responses to reduce distress and build more manageable daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then work collaboratively to try methods that suit the person's needs. Plans are adjusted as the work progresses so the approach remains practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls suit in-depth conversations, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caregiving or mobility needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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