About Michaela
Michaela Grecu is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds the NCPS credential and has eight years of clinical experience supporting people through stressful and painful periods in life. Michaela speaks English and Romanian and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Michaela trained in psychology and completed postgraduate diplomas in hypnotherapy and psychotherapy and counselling. She is a member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, which reflects her commitment to ongoing learning and supervised practice.
How Michaela works
Her background gives her several ways to approach a problem rather than one single technique. Her style is collaborative and respectful. Sessions focus on what the person brings in.
Michaela aims to listen first, help people make sense of thoughts and feelings, and then try practical steps to feel better. She keeps language plain and focuses on immediate, usable tools as well as longer term reflection.
Common areas she supports include stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting pressures, anger and coping with life changes. She also gives space to concerns such as attachment and abandonment, body image, communication and impulsivity. Sessions can be short or longer term and proceed at a pace the person prefers.
Michaela helps people identify small changes they can make right away, and she revisits goals together as progress unfolds.
Michaela lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Michaela works with
The areas below are the ones Michaela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Romanian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-centred work focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead. It helps when someone needs an empathic space to talk and make sense of feelings and decisions.Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and teaches concrete strategies for managing anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy supports noticing thoughts and sensations without getting caught up in them, which can help with stress, rumination and emotional regulation.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Michaela will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's goals, needs and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as those goals change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing short updates between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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