About Michelle
Michelle Jo is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She has five years of professional experience and uses a calm, practical style to help people manage stress and anxiety. Her approach mixes mindfulness with straightforward skill-building so clients can use tools between sessions.
Michelle draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centred techniques. She often teaches breathing exercises, body scans and guided meditation to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
She also focuses on assertiveness and healthy communication skills to improve day-to-day relationships. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including depression, grief, addiction, intimacy-related issues and parenting stress. Additional areas she addresses include attachment difficulties, abandonment worries, chronic illness and caregiver strain.
Michelle also supports people navigating career changes, separation and coping with loss. Michelle believes each person knows their story best. Sessions aim to build on strengths and practical steps rather than labels.
Psychoeducation features strongly in her practice to help people understand what they are experiencing and why certain strategies can help. People who choose Michelle can expect a collaborative tone. She offers gentle guidance, teaches simple practices and helps set small, achievable goals.
The emphasis is on learning skills that fit into everyday life and on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Michelle's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It aims to clarify personal values and take small actions that align with what matters, which can be useful for anxiety and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more balanced responses. It often uses practical exercises and homework to reduce symptoms of anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.
Michelle also uses client-centred methods that prioritise the person's perspective and pace. This approach creates space for someone to talk things through while the counsellor reflects and gently guides coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's needs, goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time and checks in about what is or is not helpful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, while phone calls can be a simpler way to talk when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, writing through thoughts, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These formats make it easier to access therapy from different locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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