About Michelle
Michelle Burke helps people who are feeling stuck, anxious or overwhelmed. She talks plainly and offers a steady presence while you describe what’s going on. Her aim is to help you make changes that feel manageable and steady over time.
Michelle uses a psychodynamic approach to help people understand patterns that come from past relationships and early experiences. Sessions focus on what matters to the client now and on how past events shape current feelings and reactions.
How Michelle works
She keeps plans flexible to fit the person in front of her rather than following a fixed script. Her background includes four years of professional practice in the United Kingdom and registration with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. That experience includes supporting people with stress, anxiety and depression.
Michelle also helps with self-esteem and motivation challenges. She works with a wide range of life and relationship concerns such as communication problems, divorce and separation, blended family issues and caregiving stress. Additional areas she often addresses include abandonment, attachment matters, adoption and foster care related issues, guilt and shame, and multicultural concerns.
Sessions are shaped around practical steps you can try between meetings, alongside space to talk through feelings and patterns. Michelle strives to be respectful and compassionate, and to tailor conversations so they match each person’s goals and pace.
Michelle lists one way 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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- 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
Psychodynamic approaches and online therapy options
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to feelings and relationships that repeat across life. It helps people see how early experiences can shape current reactions, which can make it easier to try different responses in daily life.In sessions the therapist listens for patterns in thoughts, feelings and relationships. This gentle exploration aims to make unconscious habits clearer so people can make more conscious choices about how they act and relate. That approach is useful for worries rooted in attachment, abandonment or long-standing relationship difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together you will decide whether to keep exploring psychodynamic themes or to adapt the style to meet practical needs and short-term goals.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls let you use face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, written reflection or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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A practical next step
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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