About Michelle
Michelle Banfield-Curran is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She supports people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, loss of identity or repeated life patterns that cause distress. Michelle aims to create a space where someone can be heard and begin to take small steps forward.
She focuses on practical conversation and exploration rather than jargon. Sessions can help when daily functioning feels hard, when relationships are strained, or when grief and past hurt keep resurfacing.
How Michelle works
Michelle listens for patterns that might be keeping someone stuck and works with them to find different ways of responding. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening, Jungian thinking, mindfulness and narrative work. These methods inform how she thinks about relationships, inner stories and present difficulties.
She adapts conversations to what each person needs rather than following a fixed protocol. Michelle has worked with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, blended family strain, body image, cancer-related concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control struggles, separation and domestic violence, emptiness, fatherhood issues and forgiveness. This range reflects a focus on emotional and relational life.
Therapy sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules sessions according to therapist availability.
Michelle lists 7 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Michelle’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current needs and reactions. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in close relationships and practise different ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy focuses on careful listening, acceptance and building understanding; it helps people feel heard and make their own choices about change.Michelle also uses mindfulness and narrative ideas to support exploration of thoughts and stories that keep someone stuck. Mindfulness offers simple exercises to calm the body and steady attention. Narrative work helps name the stories someone tells about themselves and then consider alternative, more helpful ways of seeing things.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. She will adjust the focus as needs change, so the therapy remains useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical advantages. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can suit brief check-ins, people who prefer writing, or those fitting therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life and keep progress moving.
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