- Years in practice
- 7
- Registration
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Michelle
Michelle Thomas is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with seven years' experience. She offers a warm, friendly approach and sees each person as the expert on their life. Sessions are shaped around what a client wants to achieve and the practical steps that fit their day to day.
Michelle blends several approaches to meet individual needs. She uses client-centred ways of listening and reflecting to help people feel understood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people examine patterns in close relationships and create different ways of connecting. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns. These include stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and addiction.
She also supports people dealing with parenting pressures, sleep difficulties, anger and career changes. Michelle works with additional challenges such as attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and caregiver stress. She also helps people facing body image struggles, commitment worries and compassion fatigue.
Michelle holds NCPS as a listed credential. Sessions are offered in English and are based in the United Kingdom. She provides a mixture of appointment times and has limited evening and weekend availability on request.
What Michelle works with
Everything Michelle lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Michelle helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coaching
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Michelle lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Michelle's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, reflecting and helping people feel heard. Online sessions using this approach give space to talk through what matters and to set goals at a comfortable pace.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. In online work CBT is practical: identifying thought patterns, setting small experiments, and practising new skills between sessions to reduce anxiety or low mood.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice emotional patterns in close relationships and learn new ways of responding. When used online it supports changes in how people relate and communicate, including work on intimacy-related issues.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit best with a person’s goals, needs and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls let people speak face to face when travel is difficult. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and more flexible ways to keep contact between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
Questions people ask about Michelle
What problems does Michelle help with?
She supports a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, intimacy-related and relationship issues, trauma, addiction and parenting stresses.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and client-centred. She combines listening with practical approaches such as CBT and emotionally-focused work to help people change patterns.
What is her background and experience?
She has seven years' experience as a psychotherapeutic counsellor and uses an integrative approach to tailor sessions to individual goals.
What credentials and location are listed?
The profile lists NCPS as a credential and shows the therapist is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international arrangements apply?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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