About Michelle
Michelle King is a counsellor with 17 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She listens carefully and offers steady, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She aims to make the first session feel manageable for someone who is nervous about starting therapy.
She concentrates on what is happening now and how past patterns affect current feelings. Sessions address problems such as low self-esteem, compassion fatigue and coping with life changes.
How Michelle works
She also helps people who are struggling with abandonment, attachment issues, relationship communication, and feeling isolated. Michelle uses a mix of recognised approaches to suit each person. That includes attachment-based ideas that look at how early connections shape trust, client-centred work that follows the person’s pace, and cognitive behavioural techniques to change unhelpful thoughts.
She also draws on dialectical behaviour ideas for emotion regulation and mindfulness for grounding. Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and experience. Practical tools and simple exercises are offered when useful, alongside talking and reflection.
The aim is to build skills that can be used between sessions as life gets harder or changes occur. Michelle is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are delivered in English and are offered online via several formats.
To begin, a brief matching questionnaire is used to pair someone with a suitable time and format.
Michelle lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online counselling
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns of trust and closeness. Online sessions can explore these patterns through reflective conversation and practical exercises that highlight relationship themes.Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the centre of the session. The counsellor follows the individual’s pace, offering empathy and understanding while helping the person find their own solutions.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, addresses unhelpful thoughts and routines by teaching straightforward skills to test and change them. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and needs and decide together which methods to use. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so they feel relevant and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing written reflection. These options offer flexibility to fit sessions around work, caring duties and daily life.
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