About Michelle
Michelle Fear works using relationship-focused and trauma-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety and painful life events. She is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. Michelle aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where people can speak honestly about what is worrying them.
She draws on attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This can help when attachment issues, abandonment or repeated conflicts feel familiar and hard to change.
How Michelle works
Michelle also uses client-centred ways of working to make conversations feel paced around the person rather than the therapist. Trauma-focused methods feature in her practice for those dealing with abuse, dissociation or the knock-on effects of violence. She helps people who carry grief, guilt or shame to name those feelings and make practical steps to feel steadier in day-to-day life.
Common concerns she supports include family problems, divorce and separation, and coping after infidelity. People also come to her for help with loneliness, self-esteem, fatherhood issues, commitment and control worries, and for clarity about life purpose. Her work aims to be collaborative - they talk through what matters, try things that might help, and review progress together.
Sessions are adapted to the person’s needs rather than following a fixed script. Michelle has three years of professional experience and offers sessions in English. She accepts international clients and uses a range of online formats to suit different schedules and needs.
Michelle lists 4 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- 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 attachment work and trauma therapy translate online
Michelle commonly uses attachment-based and trauma-focused approaches in her online practice. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current emotional patterns and helps people change repeating cycles in close relationships. Trauma-focused therapy helps people process events that continue to affect daily life and can reduce distressing reactions related to past abuse or loss.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle will work with each person to agree which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative decision-making means approaches can be adjusted over time as understanding grows and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people see one another for a fuller conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats aim to make therapy easier to fit around work, family and travel commitments.
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