Michelle Copley
Compassionate counsellor using practical therapy
About Michelle
Michelle Copley offers a practical, person-focused counselling style grounded in well-known therapeutic approaches. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other methods to help people make sense of their thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Michelle is a BACP counsellor with 12 years of experience based in the United Kingdom.
She keeps sessions conversational and collaborative. Michelle asks about what is happening, helps people gain clearer perspectives, and teaches strategies they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
The aim is to turn insights into workable changes rather than just talk. Michelle has supported people facing a wide range of concerns. These include stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma, as well as addictions, sleep problems, low self‑esteem and work-related difficulties.
She also works with issues linked to parenting, relationship tensions, identity and LGBT concerns, and ADHD. Her practice draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Client-Centred approaches, along with existential and emotionally-focused ideas where useful. Michelle combines these to build a personalised plan that fits each person’s needs and goals.
Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or messaging. Michelle explains techniques and helps people practise them so they can apply what they learn in everyday life. She aims to offer respectful, straightforward support from the first contact onwards.
What Michelle works with
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online counselling
Client‑Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens closely and follows the person’s lead to build trust and clearer self‑understanding, which helps with emotional distress and relationship questions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, manage depression and change unhelpful patterns.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, tolerance of distress and better interpersonal communication. It can be helpful for managing strong emotions, impulsive behaviours and relationship conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text‑based messaging to give flexible access. Video lets people use visual cues during conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit quick check‑ins or shorter exchanges. These options help fit therapy around work, family and travel without adding commute time.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
