About Michelle
Michelle Reid is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety and work through relationship and family concerns. She also supports clients with self-esteem and adjusting to life changes.
Michelle frames the first step into therapy as a brave move and aims to make that step feel worthwhile. Her approach begins by listening to each person's story and recognising strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and practical. Michelle focuses on small, manageable steps that build confidence and improve coping skills over time. She has worked with a broad range of issues including abandonment and attachment concerns, communication and commitment problems, and blended family matters.
Michelle also addresses chronic pain or illness, body image, codependency, and difficulties linked to autism and Asperger syndrome. People come to her with problems such as division and separation, control and dependent personality patterns, or recovery from domestic violence and other traumatic events. Sessions are intended to help people clarify what matters to them and make changes that fit their life.
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s needs. Conversations may include practical exercises, goal-setting and tools for managing anxiety day to day. The overall aim is to help clients feel more in control and better able to cope with life’s demands.
Approaches that guide online work and practical steps
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she draws on helps people learn concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breath work, pacing and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These techniques aim to reduce immediate overwhelm and build confidence in facing difficult moments.Another approach emphasises understanding attachment and relationship patterns. This helps people notice how past experiences affect current relationships and communication, and then practise new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle will talk with each person about their goals, needs and preferences and then agree a way forward. That collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video makes it easier to use visual exercises, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help people access therapy from work, home or while travelling and make it easier to keep therapy consistent alongside daily commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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