Michelle King, BACP - Therapist in United Kingdom

About Michelle

Michelle King is a counsellor with 17 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and mood concerns. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone searching for help.

Michelle adapts sessions to each person's needs. She listens first, then shapes conversation and tools around real-life problems. That might mean short practical strategies for anxiety or longer work on painful past events and attachment worries.

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Background and approach

Her work draws on several ways of working, including attachment-focused ideas, cognitive behavioural methods, and mindfulness. These help with symptoms such as low mood, rumination, worry, and difficulty trusting others. Michelle also uses skills from dialectical behaviour therapy when emotional intensity or coping skills are at issue.

She supports people bringing concerns about self-esteem, life changes, caregiver stress, or relationship communication. Other areas she often addresses include abandonment, body image, isolation, and guilt or shame. She aims for straightforward, real-world changes rather than jargon.

Michelle is a BACP counsellor. BACP stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She offers sessions in English and provides a mix of formats to fit different needs.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape today’s feelings and reactions. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in trust and closeness and practise different ways of connecting and responding in relationships.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. In online sessions this can mean setting simple experiments, tracking worry or trying quick thought-challenging exercises between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve mood.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple exercises for calming the body and mind. Short guided practices or check-ins by message help people bring that skill into daily life and manage stress more effectively.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss symptoms, goals and personal preferences, then adapt techniques over time. Clients and therapist review what helps and what needs changing so care fits the person rather than a fixed method.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, homework review or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving or travel while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of problems does she help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue and coping with life changes. Additional areas include relationship communication, body image, isolation, guilt and mood problems.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is respectful and client-centred with practical focus. She listens first and then adapts conversations and tools to the person in front of her.

How much experience does she have?

She has 17 years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. That time includes supporting people through anxiety, trauma-related concerns and life transitions.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a BACP counsellor, where BACP means the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her practice is based in the United Kingdom.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the UK work with her?

She is not taking international clients at this time and works with people in the United Kingdom.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does the subscription and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

What this therapist works with

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Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 17 years
Licensed
Languages: English

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