About Michelle
Michelle Robinson-Hayes helps people manage stress, anxiety and major life changes. She supports those dealing with grief, low self-esteem, depression, addictions and relationship concerns. Michelle also works with issues such as sleep, eating, anger, career difficulties and compassion fatigue.
Her style is practical and conversational. Sessions focus on what someone wants to change and on small steps that can be tried between meetings. Michelle listens, reflects, and uses structured tools when they will help move things forward.
Background and approach
Michelle trained and works as a psychotherapeutic counsellor and hypnotherapist and holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP. She has around ten years of professional experience delivering one-to-one counselling and hypnotherapy sessions and teaching those skills to others. Before counselling she spent many years in senior management roles in corporate settings.
That background shaped her coaching and training skills and her comfort with clear goal-setting and practical planning. She has also offered bereavement support and supervised other counsellors. Sessions are offered in English.
Michelle provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, and she works with people internationally. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and helping them find their own solutions through active listening and reflection. It can help with anxiety, self-esteem and relationship concerns by creating a supportive space to talk things through.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect. It uses short exercises and practical strategies to address anxiety, mood and sleep problems and is well suited to online sessions where worksheets and behavioural tasks can be shared and reviewed.
Michelle will work collaboratively to find the best fit. She discusses goals and preferences early on and adjusts techniques as therapy progresses, combining talking, practical tasks and, where appropriate, hypnotherapy or mindfulness practices.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet with a therapist. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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