About Michelle
Michelle Corrigan offers a calm, person-centred approach for people feeling stuck, stressed, or overwhelmed. She meets clients where they are and focuses on what is happening now and what led to the current difficulties. Sessions are conversational and may include creative, experiential elements to help access thoughts and feelings.
Michelle is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). She uses a blend of approaches to tailor sessions to each person.
How Michelle works
That can mean helping someone notice patterns in relationships, naming unhelpful thoughts, or exploring emotions that arise in the body. Michelle aims to make practical steps feel manageable, not overwhelming. She encourages small, realistic changes that fit everyday life.
Her style is warm and interactive. People are treated as individuals rather than a list of problems. Sessions may involve talking, gentle exercises, or reflective tasks to try between meetings.
The focus stays on what the client wants to change or understand. Michelle has six years of counselling experience and draws on humanistic ideas such as Gestalt, alongside attachment and emotion-focused perspectives. Her practice includes attention to how stress shows up physically and mentally, and how past relational patterns influence current reactions.
She works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, addictions, self-esteem, and relationship issues. Michelle also supports people facing career strain, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and sleep difficulties. Her aim is to help clients find clearer direction and greater resilience.
Getting started is straightforward: choose a session format, say what you want to address, and plan practical steps together. Michelle offers a supportive space to name problems and build workable strategies for change.
Michelle lists 11 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
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Attachment-based work helps people understand patterns from early relationships and how those patterns affect current reactions and close connections. It can be useful for those who notice repeating relationship hurts or struggle with trust and closeness.Client-centred counselling focuses on the client's experience in the here and now. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what is heard, and supports the client to find their own solutions and sense of direction.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical experiments to change responses to stress, anxiety or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will discuss different ways of working and decide together which methods suit the client's goals and preferences. This collaborative process means the plan can change as needs become clearer.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility constraints while keeping focus on steady progress.
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A practical next step
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