Michelle Saunders
Warm, practical counselling to help you move forward
About Michelle
Michelle Saunders uses a client-centred approach to help people find clearer ways forward. She introduces a calm, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. Michelle's style is straightforward and warm.
She aims to make the first steps easier for people who are worried or unsure. Michelle has six years of counselling experience and holds NCPS as a credential. She has worked across health settings during a long career, including nurseries and acute hospital environments.
Background and approach
That background means she understands how stress and illness can affect everyday life. She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, anger and depression. She also helps with self-esteem, grief, intimacy-related issues and compassion fatigue.
Additional areas she addresses include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and eating or addiction-related challenges. Michelle uses Client-Centred Therapy to put the person at the heart of sessions. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and Solution-Focused Therapy to build practical steps forward.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Michelle works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions.
What Michelle works with
How Michelle works
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Listed by Michelle among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist offers an accepting space and helps people feel heard so they can explore what matters most to them. This approach suits worries about self-esteem, grief and relationship-related difficulties.Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It uses gentle questions to build motivation and practical steps, which can be useful for issues like addiction, eating concerns or making life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then use one or a mix of methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as needs change.
Online therapy is offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer to write or need flexible, brief contact around work or caregiving commitments. These formats make therapy easier to fit into busy lives and help people access support from wherever they are located in the United Kingdom.
| 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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
