About Michelle
Michelle McGee welcomes people who are feeling stuck, anxious, overwhelmed by grief, or strained by relationship and family tensions. She writes simply and directly to make the first step feel less daunting. Michelle aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
She has five years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which signals membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
How Michelle works
Michelle adapts her conversations to each person’s needs and helps people build practical ways to cope with stress, low mood and life transitions. Her work includes support for intimacy-related concerns, parenting challenges and issues linked to identity and sexuality. She also helps people managing trauma, abuse, and complex feelings such as guilt or shame.
Michelle pays attention to family dynamics, blended family issues and attachment patterns that affect everyday relationships. People may come with worries about career direction, body image, fertility or caring for a loved one. She offers help with communication problems, control issues, and the emotional work around separation or bereavement.
Sessions focus on what is useful now and on skills to manage future difficulties. Michelle describes her approach as respectful, sensitive and compassionate. She works collaboratively to tailor a plan to each person’s goals.
That may mean short-term strategies or a longer dialogue to untangle deeper patterns.
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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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 translate to online care
Michelle works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and understanding patterns. One common approach she uses helps people notice unhelpful thinking and develop new coping skills for anxiety and low mood; this is useful for stress, panic and persistent worry. Another approach looks at attachment and relationship patterns to improve communication, emotional closeness and ways of handling conflict, which can help with intimacy and family difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle explores your goals, preferences and past experiences and then suggests a way forward. She keeps the plan flexible and checks in regularly to make sure the approach is helpful and fits your situation.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or caring responsibilities. Video calls provide a close, conversational experience; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for reflection between messages and make it possible to keep working on issues without scheduling a full session. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into everyday routines.
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