Michelle Jo, BACP
Michelle Jo is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience.
About Michelle
Michelle Jo is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She combines practical skills and calm presence to help people manage stress, anxiety, low mood and problems with self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief and parenting pressures.
Her approach draws on mindfulness and breathing practices to help people feel steadier in their bodies. She offers guided meditations and body scans alongside tools for managing intense emotions.
Background and approach
Clients can also expect clear, skills-based work on communication and assertiveness. Michelle uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioural approaches and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses. She also works from an attachment-informed viewpoint to understand relationship dynamics and recurring fears about abandonment or commitment.
She values psychoeducation and explains how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect. That information is used to build a personalised plan with realistic steps and practical exercises. The aim is to help people move toward their values while managing symptoms that get in the way.
Sessions are conversational and paced to each person. Michelle describes clients as the experts on their lives and sees her role as a collaborator and guide. She accepts international clients and runs sessions in English.
Details from the counsellor's public professional profile · registration number listed
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 388777 | August 2026 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Michelle lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Ways of working Michelle names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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How Michelle’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current interactions and helps people notice repeating dynamics so they can choose different responses in close relationships.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with each person about their goals, past experience of therapy and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adapt the work as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video sessions are good for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone calls work when bandwidth is low, live chat fits quick check-ins and text messaging allows short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caring duties and travel while still accessing consistent support from a registered professional.
Frequently asked
What concerns does Michelle help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and relationship difficulties. Trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain and issues like addiction and anger are also within her focus.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, combining mindfulness exercises with skills training. She uses clear explanations and short exercises to help people try new ways of coping.
What is her background and experience?
She has five years of professional experience and holds a degree in psychology. She is also a mindfulness practitioner with a Train To Teach Mindfulness level 1 certificate.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP, and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients for online work.
Which session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging as ways to meet and work together.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and is delivered via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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