Michelle Jo
Calm, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Michelle
Michelle Jo is a counsellor with a BACP accreditation and five years of experience in the UK. She focuses on straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and self-esteem struggles. Michelle uses practical skills like mindfulness exercises and communication practice to help people feel steadier.
She prefers a down-to-earth way of working. Sessions often begin with simple breathing and body-awareness exercises to reduce tension. She teaches guided meditations and short mindfulness practices that can be used between sessions.
Background and approach
Michelle draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioural techniques and acceptance-based ideas. These methods help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small, doable changes. She also uses attachment-informed thinking to look at how past relationships shape current reactions.
Practical skill-building is part of sessions. That includes assertiveness practice, healthier communication habits and psychoeducation to make problems easier to understand. Michelle also supports clients who face grief, trauma, addiction concerns and chronic health stressors.
In conversations she aims to treat people as experts on their own lives and to build on existing strengths. The work is collaborative and paced to suit each person. For parents or those juggling caring roles she offers strategies to manage overwhelm and time pressures.
Michelle accepts international clients and runs sessions in English. She offers different contact formats to suit varied schedules, and will help people pick an approach that fits their goals.
What Michelle works with
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches applied to online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then clarify values and take small action steps. This approach can help with anxiety, low mood and life transitions by shifting attention towards meaningful behaviour rather than getting stuck on hard feelings.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current responses to stress and intimacy. It can be useful for people who struggle with abandonment fears, trust or communication problems by exploring recurring relationship habits and trying new ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, needs and preferences. Together they will try strategies, review what helps and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when appearance and non-verbal cues matter. Phone sessions suit someone who prefers not to be on camera or has limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick practice tasks and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family commitments and travel.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
