Michelle Lumley
Gentle, practical counselling for adults
About Michelle
Michelle Lumley is a BACP counsellor working online with adults across the United Kingdom. She has three years of practice and offers straightforward, down-to-earth support for people dealing with anxiety, stress, grief and other life changes. Michelle keeps information bite-sized and speaks in a calm, patient way to help people feel understood from the first contact.
Michelle builds sessions around a trusted relationship and listens with curiosity rather than judgement.
Background and approach
She uses a human-centred style that aims to uncover what matters to each person. She will ask gentle questions and reflect back what she hears so clients can make sense of difficult feelings. Her work blends different therapeutic ideas to suit individual needs.
That can include exploring how early attachments shape current relationships, looking at patterns of thought and behaviour, or using mindfulness to manage overwhelming emotion. She can also introduce creative elements such as reflective writing or simple art activities to help express things that are hard to say.
Michelle offers both short-term and longer-term counselling, and she and the client regularly review progress to keep things on track. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines and practical needs. Her approach is respectful and paced to the client.
New clients begin with a first exploratory meeting to agree goals and a way of working. Michelle aims to make the process feel manageable even when people are unsure what they need at the start.
What Michelle works with
How Michelle works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Michelle commonly draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. This approach helps when trust, abandonment or connection issues come up in relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to notice thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and to try small practical changes that can reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to identify goals, try different ways of working and agree what feels most useful. That might mean mixing approaches as needs evolve rather than sticking to one technique.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video is good for a face-to-face feel, phone calls can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and text or chat can be used for brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress.
| 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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
