Michelle Robinson-Hayes
Experienced counsellor and hypnotherapist
About Michelle
Michelle Robinson-Hayes helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She also supports those dealing with grief, low self-esteem, addiction and trauma. Michelle uses counselling, hypnotherapy and coaching to help people make practical changes in everyday life.
She draws on ten years of direct therapeutic experience and a longer background in senior management. That business experience informs the way she structures sessions and sets clear goals with people. Michelle trained and practised as a hypnotherapist and has delivered more than 500 hours of hypnotherapy alongside over 1,000 hours of counselling.
Background and approach
Her work is practical and person-focused. Sessions tend to centre on what someone wants to change, and then agreed steps to reach those aims. She uses Client-Centred techniques to listen and reflect, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to address unhelpful thinking, and hypnotherapy where appropriate.
Michelle has experience supporting people with a wide range of issues beyond the core concerns, including body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, autism and attachment-related matters. She has also worked with people affected by bereavement and has substantial volunteer experience with bereavement support services.
She set up a community counselling and hypnotherapy practice to improve access to support and has taught and supervised trainee counsellors and hypnotherapists. Michelle holds BACP registration, which is described here as BACP, and she combines clinical work with mentoring and training roles.
If someone prefers online work she offers sessions by video, phone, chat and messaging, and she can help clients clarify goals and next steps during an initial conversation.
What Michelle works with
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Michelle commonly uses Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on listening carefully and helping people find their own solutions. This approach is useful when someone needs space to feel heard and to clarify what they want to change.She also applies Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and helps people build practical tools to manage anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits. Hypnotherapy can be offered as a complementary option for issues such as stress, sleep, smoking or habit change, using guided relaxation and focused attention to support new patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that suit the person’s goals, and adapt techniques as progress is made. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and have a fuller conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief reflections, ongoing support between sessions and a written record of key insights. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
