About Michele
Michele Attias is a BACP counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and major life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 20 years of experience to sessions. Michele aims to create a calm space where clients feel heard and supported as they work through immediate problems and longer-term goals.
Michele uses a holistic, body-aware approach that includes somatic ideas alongside talking therapies. That means attention to how feelings show up in the body as well as in thoughts and behaviour.
Background and approach
She draws on established methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to form a plan that fits each person. Sessions are shaped around what the client needs. Michele offers short-term focused work or longer-term support, and adapts tools to everyday life.
She helps with practical concerns like sleep, concentration and time management as well as emotional issues such as grief, low self-esteem and relationship or intimacy-related worries. Her background as a counsellor and life coach informs a practical, action-orientated style. Clients can expect clear steps between meetings and help turning insight into behaviour change.
Michele also writes about wellbeing and aims to make progress feel manageable rather than overwhelming. Work with Michele can support people coping with addiction, ADHD, career strain, caregiver stress and a range of attachment or identity concerns. International clients can work in English or Spanish, and sessions are offered online in several formats to suit different needs.
How Michele blends approaches online
Michele integrates somatic ideas with evidence-based talking therapies. Somatic work pays attention to bodily sensations and how they relate to feelings, which can help with trauma, anxiety and stress by teaching ways to notice and regulate bodily responses. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and building a values-driven life; it is useful for anxiety, depression and life changes.She also draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to explore relational patterns and create a supportive, non-judgemental space. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. Michele collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, pacing the work so it feels manageable and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions suit times when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on clear steps and real-world change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish