Michelle Freeman
Experienced trauma-informed counsellor
About Michelle
Michelle Freeman is a counsellor with 13 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration, which means she is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Michelle focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and related difficulties.
She uses a range of therapy styles to match what each person needs. Sessions often centre on talking through recent problems and past experiences.
Background and approach
She also draws on techniques from cognitive approaches and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help with thoughts and behaviours. Michelle works with people facing relationship and intimacy issues, low self-esteem, sleep problems and anger. She supports people affected by abuse and trauma, and those coping with life changes or long-term health concerns.
She also offers help around eating, body image, ADHD and issues connected to sexuality, including LGBT concerns. Therapy is offered in short or longer formats depending on goals. Michelle emphasises a steady pace and a non-judgemental atmosphere.
She aims to understand how a person sees their world and to work together to reach practical steps or acceptance. When appropriate, she can include EMDR-informed work and hypnotherapy techniques as part of the plan. Sessions may also involve creative exercises when talking alone does not feel right.
Michelle supports international clients and runs sessions in English.
What Michelle works with
How Michelle works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on what matters most to them. It uses practical exercises to build values-based action when anxiety or stress get in the way. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses simple tools to change patterns that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems and low mood. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories by working through disturbing images and sensations in a structured way. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. That choice is made together and can be adjusted as therapy progresses to match what helps most. Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy or varied schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing facial cues matters, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into short breaks. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, reflective notes or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care across different locations and daily routines.| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
