Michael Harland
Listening for deeper feelings
About Michael
Michael Harland offers a calm, thoughtful space for people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck. He writes simply and listens closely, helping people name what they are feeling and find ways to move forward. Michael works from the United Kingdom and uses a conversational style to make sessions straightforward and practical.
He focuses on feelings rather than only on thoughts, helping people notice emotional patterns that shape their behaviour. This approach can help with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns, among other difficulties.
Background and approach
Michael also supports people dealing with addiction, ADHD, body image and chronic illness challenges. Michael brings five years of clinical work to his practice and holds BACP accreditation, which indicates professional membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
He combines two main approaches in his work: mindfulness techniques to build present-moment awareness, and psychodynamic ideas to look at deeper emotional patterns. In a typical session he encourages honest, focused conversation and pays attention to feelings that may be avoided in everyday life.
He will help people spot repeating patterns, understand how past experiences influence today, and try small, practical steps to change things. Sessions are offered online in several formats so people can choose what suits their life and schedule. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to pair someone with the right therapist and then appointments are arranged according to availability.
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Sessions & fees
How Michael uses mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas online
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple exercises to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away by them. Used in short practices, it can reduce reactivity and help manage stress, anxiety, sleeping problems and chronic pain.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at recurring emotional patterns and how past experiences shape current reactions. This approach helps people understand attachment, abandonment, intimacy issues and other deep-seated concerns by gently bringing those patterns into awareness.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Michael will talk with each person about needs, goals and preferences and together choose either mindful practices, deeper psychodynamic work, or a blend of both depending on what will help most.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when that suits, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, live chat offers a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
