About Michelle
Michelle Yang is an ACA counsellor with nine years of professional experience in Australia. She focuses on everyday problems that pile up - stress, anxiety, work strain and relationship tensions - and helps people take the first small steps toward feeling steadier. Michelle keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
She helps people notice what matters to them, build clearer communication, manage strong emotions, and make changes that fit their life. Conversations are direct but warm, and clients set the pace.
How Michelle works
Her background includes support for people coping with addiction, trauma and grief, and those navigating major life transitions. Michelle also works with concerns such as sleep difficulties, low self-esteem, anger and challenges related to caregiving or chronic health issues. She draws on a mix of approaches to suit different needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, cognitive strategies and emotion skills.
Sessions aim to teach tools people can use between meetings as well as time for talking through what matters most right now. Michelle offers sessions in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. The first step is a short matching questionnaire and a scheduling process, so people can find a time that fits their routine and commitments.
Michelle lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- 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 | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English, Mandarin, Cantonese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then take actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand and change how they relate to others when under stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies for managing symptoms like low mood, anxiety or sleep problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then adapt techniques to what fits best. This is a collaborative process and adjustments can be made as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a workday, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer typed conversations. These options help therapy fit around family, work and other commitments.
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