Michele Attias
Supportive bilingual counsellor focused on everyday coping
About Michele
Michele Attias is a BACP counsellor with 20 years' experience who speaks English and Spanish. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and major life changes. Michele listens with care and aims to make clients feel understood from the first session.
She combines several ways of working to suit each person. That includes approaches that focus on thoughts and behaviours, emotional attachment, and helping people find personal values and meaning.
Background and approach
Michele describes her style as client-centred and integrative, which means she adapts methods to each person's needs rather than using a single technique. Sessions can be short term or longer term depending on what is needed. Michele also includes coaching elements when clients want practical steps for decision-making and action.
Many people come to her for help with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, compulsive behaviours, eating or sleeping problems, and career issues. She pays attention to how emotional, social and physical factors interact. That might mean working on coping skills, improving concentration and time management, or exploring attachment patterns that affect relationships.
The aim is to reduce overwhelm and support clearer choices in daily life. Michele also supports people with more specific concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, trauma and abuse, or issues around adoption and abandonment. She accepts international clients and offers a mix of online session formats to fit different routines.
What Michele works with
How Michele works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that reflect their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical steps to change patterns that cause distress. It suits worries, sleep and concentration problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michele will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person's goals and preferences. That may mean combining techniques from different approaches and checking in regularly to see what helps most.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional understanding.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish
