About Michelle
Michelle Yang is an ACA counsellor with nine years of professional experience in Australia. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with addiction, career strain and relationship challenges.
Michelle speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese which helps when language matters. Michelle uses clear, practical ways to work through problems. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to notice unhelpful thought patterns and on acceptance and commitment techniques to help people act in line with their values.
Background and approach
Attachment-focused work is offered when relationship patterns or past connections are getting in the way. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Michelle aims to make tasks feel doable, with simple coping skills and small experiments to try between meetings.
She will coach people through stress management, sleep problems and confidence-building. She has a particular interest in grief, trauma and compassion fatigue. Michelle also supports people navigating parenting demands, intimacy-related concerns, ADHD and chronic health challenges.
Her approach blends practical tools with attention to emotional experience. Starting therapy with Michelle begins with a short matching process and then scheduling a session that fits. She keeps language straightforward and explains therapeutic steps so people know what to expect.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches fit with online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and helping them take small, meaningful steps towards those values. It is helpful for anxiety, stress and life transitions because it reduces struggle with difficult thoughts and supports committed action. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It suits problems like anxiety, sleep issues and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early connection patterns influence current relationships and emotional reactions, and it can help when trust and intimacy are difficult.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods that match the person's needs. This is a collaborative process with regular check-ins about progress and adjustments as required.
Online sessions can be highly flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, skill practice and quick coaching between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health commitments while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- 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
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
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