About Michelle
Michelle Robinson-Hayes helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and self-esteem struggles. She also supports those dealing with addiction, intimacy concerns, relationship strain, trauma, and sleep or eating difficulties. Michelle offers guidance around career questions, coping with life changes, and issues linked to parenting, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
Her approach is down-to-earth and practical. Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and on small, manageable steps to get there.
How Michelle works
She blends conversational therapy with goal-focused techniques and relaxation work when useful. Michelle trained and works with several therapeutic styles, including client-centred counselling and cognitive behavioural methods. She also uses hypnotherapy and mindfulness tools alongside motivational interviewing to help people build new patterns.
These are used to suit individual needs rather than following a single method. She holds BACP registration, has run a counselling and hypnotherapy practice called The Listening Tree for over eight years, and has delivered training and supervision to other counsellors. Michelle has provided many hours of counselling and hypnotherapy and has experience with bereavement support through voluntary placements.
Her background includes senior management in corporate settings, training delivery, and mentoring students aged 16 to 25 and mature learners. That mix of clinical work and workplace experience shapes a practical, structured style that suits people who want clear tools and steady support.
Michelle lists 7 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Michelle’s approaches work online
Michelle commonly blends client-centred counselling and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Client-centred work focuses on listening, understanding and reflecting so people feel heard and can find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural work looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to try between sessions.She also uses hypnotherapy for relaxation and to help people access focused states of mind for habit change or anxiety reduction. Hypnotherapy here is presented as a guided form of deep relaxation and suggestion that can support quitting behaviours, sleep work or reducing stress responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then agree a plan together. That collaboration makes it easier to try different techniques and adjust them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and text-based formats suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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