Michele Mckillop
Collaborative counsellor for relationship and life change
About Michele
Michele Mckillop is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, with eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, and coping with life changes. Michele works from the view that each person knows their story best and brings strengths to overcome current challenges.
Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She offers practical support and emotional holding while people identify what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match the person’s needs, whether they want to talk through a recent crisis or unravel long-standing patterns. Michele helps people dealing with issues such as abandonment, attachment problems, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and separation or divorce. She also supports those struggling with guilt, shame, impulsivity, loneliness, and questions about life purpose or midlife change.
She has worked with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and with people affected by narcissistic behaviour in close relationships. Michele aims to create a calm space where practical steps and personal insight can grow side by side. Clients are encouraged to set clear goals and try small experiments between sessions.
Michele helps track progress and adjust the work as needed, so therapy fits real life and leads to usable change.
What Michele works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online therapy
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to help people manage distress and change patterns in relationships and life. One common approach focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful patterns in thinking and behaviour. This helps with mood problems, impulsivity, and day-to-day coping by breaking issues into manageable steps and testing new ways of responding.Another useful approach centres on attachment and relational dynamics. It looks at how early experiences shape current relationships, and it helps people notice repeated interaction patterns and try different ways of connecting. This can be helpful for intimacy issues, abandonment worries, and communication struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele will listen to your story, discuss options, and together decide which methods fit your needs, goals, and preferences. That makes the process collaborative and responsive as therapy develops.
Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit practical needs. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports reflection between sessions. These formats give flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or mobility limits while staying connected to ongoing support.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
