Michala Cherry
Practical, compassionate support for life changes
About Michala
Michala Cherry is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and related concerns. Michala aims to create a calm space where people can say what they need to say and feel heard.
She helps with a wide range of issues including relationship strain, anger, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting concerns and self-esteem problems.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career changes, bipolar and depression, ADHD, intimacy-related worries and compassion fatigue. Michala includes work around LGBT issues and family matters as part of her practice. Her approach is practical and people-centred.
Sessions are a mix of listening, gentle challenge and problem-focused discussion. She works with each person to set goals that feel realistic and meaningful for their life. Michala holds BACP, which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and find better ways of coping. Clients can expect a steady, collaborative process that balances emotional support with practical steps. Michala aims to make therapy straightforward and tailored to the individual, helping people build skills they can use outside sessions.
What Michala works with
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches meet online sessions
Michala uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach she uses helps people understand patterns in their thoughts and behaviour, then try small changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. This suits worries, panic and ongoing low mood by giving tools to manage symptoms.Another approach emphasises processing difficult experiences and how they affect current relationships and self-worth. That kind of work helps people who have endured trauma, abuse or complicated grief to tell their story at a pace that feels manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michala will listen to what matters most, discuss options and decide on a way forward that fits the client's needs, goals and preferences. The choice of techniques can change as progress is made, with the client involved at every step.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone sessions can fit a short break or lower bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while still working towards clear goals.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
