About Michelle
Michelle Rutter is a counsellor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and addiction. She supports people facing relationship difficulties, grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and challenges with self-esteem or career change. Michelle also offers help for ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She is based in the United Kingdom and works in English. Michelle describes her work as person-centred, which means she keeps the person and their experience at the heart of sessions.
How Michelle works
That approach aims to make people feel heard, respected and treated as individuals. She combines this with practical techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and elements of emotion-focused and dialectical approaches when helpful. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs.
Conversations lead to simple, achievable steps and coping tools. Michelle focuses on everyday language so people can apply ideas between sessions without jargon. Her background includes six years of counselling experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, as shown by the BACP credential.
She describes working with people affected by physical and emotional trauma and with those navigating major life transitions. Michelle aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk honestly. Plans and techniques are adjusted as needs change, and she encourages collaborative goal setting.
If someone is ready to take steps towards change, Michelle offers steady, practical support on that journey.
Michelle lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- 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 | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Michelle combines practical therapies online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with depression, anxiety and sleep or eating concerns. Client-Centred Therapy keeps the person’s experience central and aims to create a supportive space where someone can feel heard and make their own choices about change.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The counsellor will work with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy days or limited transport. Video calls let conversations feel close to in-person sessions, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for shorter check-ins, live chat suits quick exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while still using ACT, CBT or person-centred ways of working.
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