Michelle Fear
Helping people regain balance after trauma and loss
About Michelle
Michelle Fear uses relationship-focused and trauma-aware approaches to help people make sense of difficult feelings. She works in a warm, respectful way and aims to create a calm space for people to talk about what hurts. Michelle holds a BACP credential and has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
She helps people facing stress and anxiety and those dealing with grief or the after-effects of abuse and trauma.
Background and approach
Family problems, issues around self-esteem, and concerns related to LGBT identity are also within her focus. Michelle can talk through attachment and abandonment worries, feelings of emptiness, and the strain of separation or infidelity. Sessions are shaped around each person.
Michelle listens first and then agrees a way forward together. She uses ideas from attachment-based work to look at relational patterns and from trauma-focused approaches to address painful memories and reactions. Her client-centred stance means people set the pace and topics.
Psychodynamic thinking helps uncover long-standing patterns that affect current life and choices. This mix aims to balance short-term coping with deeper understanding. Michelle offers appointments online to people in the United Kingdom and beyond.
She accepts international clients and holds sessions in English. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client.
What Michelle works with
How Michelle works
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Sessions & fees
How attachment and trauma approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and offers ways to form healthier connections. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing painful events and reducing their hold on daily life, using paced interventions to help manage upsetting memories.Choosing an approach is part of the therapeutic process. The counsellor will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. This means checking in regularly and adjusting the focus as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversations and let the counsellor notice expressions and tone. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging fits people who prefer writing to talk or want to send thoughts between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or family life while working with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Attachment issues
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
