Michelle Rutter
Compassionate person-centred counselling for life challenges
About Michelle
Michelle Rutter is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and substance problems. She also supports people facing grief, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, parenting strain, career worries, and major life changes. Michelle works in a warm, non-judgemental way so people can speak honestly and feel heard.
Her style is person-centred, which means sessions focus on the person and their experience rather than labels.
Background and approach
She combines that with cognitive behavioural ideas and emotion-focused techniques to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and build more helpful ways of coping. Sessions are customised to each person’s situation and goals. Michelle treats people with compassion and respect.
She aims to create a calm space where difficult feelings can be named and worked through. She pays attention to how past events like abandonment or trauma affect current relationships and daily life. Over six years she has worked with a broad range of concerns including addiction, bipolar symptoms, chronic illness, caregiving stress, codependency and issues linked to ageing or chronic pain.
She also supports people dealing with communication problems, dissociation, domestic violence, and cancer-related distress. Michelle is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are offered in English and can take place online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
If someone prefers a collaborative, person-focused approach, she helps plan a way forward that fits their needs.
What Michelle works with
How Michelle works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to take actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and changing behaviours that keep problems going; it often suits anxiety, stress and sleep or eating difficulties. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centres on understanding and expressing core emotions to improve emotional connections and reduce distress.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist listens to what matters to the person, discusses different methods, and adapts sessions to match goals, preferences and how someone responds as therapy progresses. This keeps the work collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video helps recreate face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments while accessing registered or accredited professionals from the United Kingdom or abroad.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
