About Michelle
Michelle Dunne is a person-centred counsellor who focuses on creating a warm, accepting space for people to talk through difficult feelings. She is a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and draws on a gentle, listening-led approach to help clients find clarity.
Michelle aims to support people facing stress, anxiety, depression and life changes in a calm, steady way. Her practice also addresses relationship concerns, grief and loss, addictions and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
How Michelle works
She helps people explore parenting pressures, career worries, and the toll of caring for others. Michelle pays attention to areas such as body image, attachment and feelings of abandonment when these come up in sessions. Michelle uses Client-Centred Therapy alongside Motivational Interviewing to help people reflect and move towards goals at their own pace.
She draws on previous roles supporting people through trauma and sudden loss, and has specific experience with grief work. That background informs how she offers steadiness when emotions feel overwhelming. As a late-diagnosed autistic woman, she is comfortable working with neurodivergent people and welcomes diverse life experiences and identities.
She is open to conversations about LGBT topics and different relationship styles and is willing to learn alongside clients. Michelle trained in England and holds a range of counselling qualifications, including a level 5 diploma in psychotherapeutic counselling and a Bachelor of Education with Qualified Teacher Status. She works online and by phone with people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Michelle lists 2 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
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| 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 her person-centred and motivational approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy here means the counsellor offers non-judgemental listening, warmth and acceptance so people can talk honestly about what matters to them. This approach helps with grief, anxiety, relationship questions and low self-esteem by giving space to be heard and understood.Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way of helping people notice what they want to change and gather motivation for it. It uses gentle, guided conversations to explore ambivalence and set practical next steps, which can help with addictions, career shifts and self-management goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their needs, goals and pace. She adapts the balance of listening and goal-focused questions as sessions progress so the plan stays personal and realistic.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people use body language and eye contact, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caring roles and travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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