About Michelle
Michelle Rutter is a person-centred counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and grief, and helps those coping with trauma, addictions and life transitions. Michelle aims to create a calm space where people can speak honestly and feel listened to without judgement.
Her practice blends person-centred care with cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of psychodynamic thinking. That means sessions often focus on what matters most to the person, while also offering practical strategies to manage thoughts and emotions.
Background and approach
Treatment plans are shaped around each person's needs rather than a fixed formula. Michelle emphasises respect, compassion and equality in her work. She helps clients break down problems into manageable steps and explores how past experiences affect current feelings and choices.
Practical tools and reflective conversation are mixed according to what a client finds helpful. People come to her with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, and career or parenting worries. She also supports those facing complex issues such as chronic illness, bereavement, domestic violence and codependency.
Sessions are tailored to individual goals and paced to suit each person. Michelle encourages people to take small, achievable steps and to notice gradual change. She welcomes enquiries from those who wish to work through difficult feelings and build more workable ways of living.
How Michelle’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, encourages people to notice their thoughts and values and to take small actions that match what matters to them. It can help when anxiety, low mood or life changes get in the way of everyday goals. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and on practising different responses. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and many day-to-day difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. Sessions are collaborative - plans are adapted over time if something is not helpful or if priorities change.
Online therapy here is delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit clients who prefer writing or want flexible, on-the-go contact. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caring commitments and travel, and help people keep consistent progress without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- 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
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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