Michelle Thomas
Warm client-focused counsellor with practical tools
About Michelle
Michelle Thomas offers a warm, client-focused counselling style. She works in a conversational, down-to-earth way and helps people tackle stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Michelle holds an NCPS credential and has seven years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom.
She adapts sessions to each person. Michelle treats the client as the expert in their own life and collaborates on achievable goals. Practical tools and simple strategies are a routine part of her work, so people leave sessions with things they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her practice covers a wide range of issues including intimacy and relationship struggles, self-esteem and body confidence, sleeping problems, addiction and anger. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, parenting stress, career change and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, autism and neurodiversity related matters, and chronic illness or caregiving strain.
Michelle uses a mix of approaches to suit the individual. These include client-centred ways of working, cognitive behavioural techniques, emotionally-focused methods, mindfulness and hypnotherapy. She also applies coaching-style conversations when helpful to clarify goals and next steps.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Michelle sometimes offers limited evening and weekend appointments on request to help fit therapy around work and family life.
What Michelle works with
How Michelle works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online with Michelle
Client-centred therapy focuses on meeting people where they are, offering empathic listening and supporting personal choices. It helps with confidence, relationship questions and general life stress by putting the client's goals front and centre.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses simple practical exercises and behaviour experiments to reduce anxiety, lift low mood and improve sleep or coping skills.
Emotionally-focused therapy concentrates on emotional patterns in close relationships. It can help people who struggle with intimacy, attachment worries or recurring conflict by identifying feelings and changing interaction habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. The choice of techniques is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between appointments and can fit into a busy day or shift pattern.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
