About Michelle
Michelle Allard helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, anger and addictions. She also supports people working through self-esteem, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, gender dysphoria and issues related to attachment or past abuse. Michelle is based in the United Kingdom and practises as a BACP counsellor.
Michelle uses a flexible approach so sessions match each person’s needs. She listens without judgement and focuses on what matters most to the client.
How Michelle works
Her aim is to help people spot patterns that hold them back and find practical ways to move forward. She pays close attention to how earlier experiences shape current feelings and relationships. That often means looking at attachment patterns and how these affect trust and closeness.
Michelle combines that perspective with talking therapies that help people understand thoughts and try new behaviours. Sessions can be short-term and goal-focused, or longer term for deeper issues. Michelle works at the client’s pace and sees the person as the expert on their own life.
The goal is to leave people feeling more able to cope and more in control. Michelle has four years of experience working with the concerns listed above. She offers sessions online by video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging, and sees people across different countries in English.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions once matched.
Michelle lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Michelle works with
The areas below are the ones Michelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of closeness and trust from earlier relationships. It helps people understand why they react in certain ways to stress, intimacy and loss and can be useful for relationship and attachment issues.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on offering genuine listening and acceptance. It gives people space to tell their story and make choices at their own pace, which can suit those dealing with grief, self-esteem or identity concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours. It is often used for anxiety, depression, anger and some addictions where clear strategies and experiments can bring relief.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then shape the sessions together with the client. This collaborative way makes it easier to adjust methods if something is not helping.
Online sessions let people access therapy from different locations and fit support into busy lives. Video calls most closely mirror face-to-face sessions, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or step-by-step reflection between calls. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and needs while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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