Michele Junges-Stainthorpe
Practical, experienced counsellor for life challenges
About Michele
Michele Junges-Stainthorpe offers calm, practical support for adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and other life challenges. She meets people where they are and helps them find clearer ways forward. Michele speaks English and French and draws on 21 years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom.
Michele uses straightforward conversations to help people make sense of difficult feelings. She focuses on what matters most to each person and adapts her style to their needs.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify underlying patterns and build realistic ways to cope day to day. Her background includes work in schools, voluntary organisations, personal companies and independent practice. Michele holds a BA in Counselling from Glasgow Caledonian University and a Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (BTEC Level 5) from South Tyneside College.
She also studied French, Russian and Politics at university. Her clinical toolbox includes client-centred approaches, cognitive and behavioural methods, dialectical skills and hypnotherapy alongside psychodynamic ideas. She draws on these methods to help with trauma, attachment difficulties, parenting stress, neurodiversity-related challenges and relationship problems.
Michele is a BACP member, which reflects her professional registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She accepts international clients and offers sessions in English and French. To begin, a brief matching questionnaire is used to connect people with suitable scheduling options.
What Michele works with
How Michele works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor. It involves listening without judgement and helping people find their own solutions, which can be useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem and grief. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, improve mood and manage sleep problems. Dialectical behaviour therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication, which helps with anger, relationship strain and emotional overwhelm.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and will adapt the plan as needs change over time. This collaborative trial-and-see method helps people find what actually helps them in daily life.
Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins and ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and travel.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, French
