About Michelle
Michelle Jo is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She holds BACP, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Michelle combines practical tools with a calm, grounded approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and challenges around relationships and self‑esteem.
She uses straightforward methods during sessions. That includes mindfulness practices such as breathing exercises, body scans and guided meditation.
How Michelle works
She also works on assertiveness and healthier ways of communicating so people can express needs and set boundaries with more confidence. Michelle draws on a psychology degree alongside therapeutic training to explain how thoughts, feelings and behaviour connect. She uses that knowledge to offer psychoeducation so people understand what is happening and why certain strategies can help.
Sessions are collaborative and focus on small, manageable steps. Her clinical approach includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment‑Based Therapy, Client‑Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. These approaches guide how she tailors tools for issues like grief, trauma, addictions and life changes.
Michelle also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, chronic illness or major relationship transitions such as separation. She aims to create a space where clients feel heard and can try new ways of coping. Practical skills and compassion are central to her way of working.
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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment‑Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current trust and intimacy. It can help with abandonment, communication problems and commitment concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will talk through options and adapt methods to suit each person's goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where the therapist and client decide together which techniques to try and when to adjust the plan.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text‑based messaging. Video calls allow face to face discussion and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check‑ins, written reflection or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into daily life and keep progress moving between sessions.
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