Michelle Lindsay

• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma and abuse
• Client-Centred Therapy

About Michelle

Michelle Lindsay works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low mood, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges around identity and parenting. She uses a person-centred approach and existential ideas to help people talk through what matters to them. Michelle is a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has four years' experience.

She offers straightforward, relational counselling. Sessions focus on listening, understanding personal experience, and helping people make practical choices. Conversations look at feelings, thoughts and relationships to clarify what has brought someone to counselling and what might help next.

Michelle draws mainly on Client-Centred Therapy and Existential Therapy while sometimes using ideas from other approaches when appropriate. This means she puts the person's perspective first and considers wider life meanings and choices. Sessions can include reflecting on past patterns, exploring values, and working through emotional reactions.

Her background includes work in private practice and within a community organisation, and she has experience with both in-person and online sessions. Michelle works with a wide range of concerns such as grief, career stress, ADHD-related challenges, and issues linked to gender and sexual identity.

People who come to her can expect a collaborative working style. She helps clients identify priorities, set realistic steps and review progress together. To begin, the usual route is to complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange a first appointment.

How Michelle's approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and following what the person brings to the session. It helps with low mood, self-esteem and relationship concerns by prioritising the person's experience and pace. Existential Therapy looks at life choices, meaning and responsibility, which can be useful for people facing major life changes, grief or questions about identity.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle will discuss the options and help decide what fits with the client's goals and preferences, and she adapts her methods as the work progresses. This is a collaborative process that reviews what is helpful and what might need to change.

The biography notes experience with both online and in-person sessions, but it does not list specific session formats here. Please confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. They can also allow people to work from a quieter place, avoid camera use if preferred, or choose sessions that better suit work and family routines.

Topics Michelle lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma and abuse
• Self-esteem
• Depression
• Coping with life changes
• LGBT
• Relationship issues
• Family conflicts
• Grief
• Intimacy-related issues
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Career difficulties
• ADHD
• Abandonment
• Aging and geriatric issues
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Body image
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Chronic pain, illness, and disability
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Divorce and separation
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Gender dysphoria
• Guilt and shame
• Infidelity
• Isolation and loneliness
• Life purpose
• Midlife crisis
• Mood disorders
• Multicultural concerns
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-love
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexuality
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues

Ways of working

• Client-Centred Therapy
• Existential Therapy

Questions about Michelle

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety and stress are listed areas Michelle works with and she uses person-centred and existential approaches to help manage these concerns.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She uses Client-Centred Therapy and Existential Therapy as primary approaches and may draw on other methods when they suit a client's needs.

What experience does she have?

Michelle has four years' experience working in private practice and within a community organisation.

Is she a registered counsellor in the UK?

She is a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and works in the United Kingdom.

Can I have sessions in other languages?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients book sessions?

International clients are not currently accepted.

How are sessions arranged and what do they cost?

Session cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I start counselling with her?

Use the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.