About Michelle
Michelle Lumley is a BACP counsellor who offers online sessions across the United Kingdom. She brings three years of practice experience and keeps information straightforward to make finding help easier. Michelle focuses on building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and understood.
Her work is rooted in a humanistic, client-centred way of relating. She listens, asks curious questions and adapts the approach to each person's needs. This helps when someone feels distressed but cannot yet name the cause.
Background and approach
Michelle uses a blend of approaches to match different concerns. She can work with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma and many practical life challenges. She also supports people coping with neurodiversity, chronic health issues and relationship difficulties.
Sessions sometimes include creative tools like art materials or reflective writing. These techniques offer another way to express thoughts and feelings when words alone feel hard to find. Michelle says she is patient, kind and curious in her manner.
Practical arrangements are discussed at the first meeting. People aged 18 and over can access short-term or longer-term counselling. Online appointments are available throughout the UK, and Michelle offers flexible times for those with changing work patterns.
How therapy approaches work online and what to expect
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships. It looks at how past connections shape current feelings and reactions, which can be helpful for people who struggle with trust, abandonment or intimacy-related worries.Client-centred work places the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without directing and helps the person make sense of their own thoughts, which suits those wanting a steady, supportive space to talk.
Different approaches suit different people, and deciding which to use is a joint process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and try methods that match what the person hopes to get from counselling. Adjustments are made as work progresses to find the best fit.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels useful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a lunch break. Live chat or text-based messaging works for shorter check-ins or when writing helps to organise thoughts. These options make it simpler to have regular sessions without travelling, and they help people keep therapy going around work and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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