About Michelle
Michelle Lumley trained as a counsellor and works online with adults across the United Kingdom. She is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and brings three years of professional experience to her practice. Michelle aims to make the first step easy and keeps introductions simple and clear for people under stress.
She uses a human-centred way of working that focuses on building a trusted relationship.
How Michelle works
Sessions start with listening and curious questions to help people name what feels hard. Michelle offers both short-term and longer-term work and adapts session length and scheduling to fit shift patterns and changing needs. Michelle draws on several approaches to shape therapy around each person.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Cognitive behavioural techniques help with anxious thoughts and unhelpful behaviours. Client-centred principles keep the person’s experience at the heart of every session.
Practical options include creative tasks such as reflective writing and simple art materials to help express what is hard to say. Progress is reviewed regularly so the pair agree how therapy is going and adjust the plan as needed. Michelle does not tell people what to feel or do; she supports them to find their own answers.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Work is offered to adults aged 18 and over who live in the UK. If someone wants to explore counselling, Michelle recommends an initial exploratory session to see if the approach fits.
Michelle lists 6 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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape present-day relationships and emotional patterns. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and try new ways of relating in day-to-day life. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and the person's right to lead the pace of work; it helps when someone wants a space to make sense of feelings without being told what to do. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tests them with simple experiments or exercises that can be done between sessions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and practical needs and then agree which methods to use together. This collaborative process means the plan can change as new needs emerge or progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face contact and visual cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging suits quick updates or when writing feels easier. These options let people arrange sessions around work and caring responsibilities and maintain continuity even when life is busy.
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