About Michelle
Michelle Saunders works from a client-centred approach to help people feel heard and understood. She uses practical, goal-focused methods to address stress, anxiety, anger and low self-esteem. Michelle draws on six years of counselling experience and holds the NCPS credential.
She offers sessions in English to people in the United Kingdom. Michelle keeps sessions straightforward and person-focused. She helps clients talk through depression, coping with life changes, grief and intimacy-related concerns.
How Michelle works
When issues relate to eating, body image or addiction she explores patterns and practical steps forward rather than using jargon. Her background includes long experience working across health settings, which shaped a calm and practical style. That experience informs how she listens to worries about caregiver strain, fatherhood issues, fertility concerns and family problems.
Michelle also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment and communication problems. Therapy often focuses on small, achievable changes. Michelle uses Client-Centred Therapy to build a trusting relationship.
She brings Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear short-term goals. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.
Michelle lists 3 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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| 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
Approach-driven online counselling that fits your life
Michelle uses Client-Centred Therapy to prioritise how you experience sessions, offering a non-judgemental space where your concerns set the agenda. That approach helps when someone needs to be listened to and understood before making changes.She also applies Motivational Interviewing, a practical way to help people clarify why change matters to them and to build their own motivation. This is useful for issues such as low motivation, addiction-related concerns or making difficult life changes. Solution-Focused Therapy is used to identify small, achievable goals and steps you can try between sessions to move forward quickly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will discuss these methods with each client and agree a plan that fits personal goals and preferences. The process is collaborative - goals and techniques are reviewed and adjusted as needed.
Online formats offer flexibility for modern life. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who communicate better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while still using the therapist's chosen approaches.
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