Michelle Corrigan, BACP
Compassionate counsellor focusing on body and relationships
About Michelle
Michelle Corrigan is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship difficulties. She welcomes conversations about what is happening now and what has brought someone to this point. Michelle works in a warm, interactive way and treats each person as an individual.
She uses a person-centred foundation, which means sessions focus on the client's experience and priorities. Dialogue is usually verbal, and can also include attention to bodily sensations and energy.
Background and approach
This allows both thoughts and physical reactions to be noticed and addressed. Michelle brings six years of practice and is registered with the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, BACP. Her approach is integrative, drawing on client-centred and humanistic ideas to shape the work.
She also brings influences from somatic ways of working and attachment-based thinking to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and relationships. Cognitive ideas and emotionally focused methods are used where helpful to clarify patterns and try new ways of relating.
Sessions look at the outer world - the events causing distress - and the inner world - feelings, thoughts and bodily responses. Michelle aims to help people identify blocks to growth and build small steps towards change. If someone is ready to take a first step, Michelle offers supportive, non-judgemental guidance and practical conversation to help move forward.
Approaches that connect body, emotion and relationship
Michelle blends somatic awareness with attachment-based thinking and client-centred practice to support online therapy. Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotion appear in the body and offers simple ways to track and shift those sensations. Attachment-based ideas look at how early and current relationship patterns shape expectations and reactions, which can be useful for addressing communication and intimacy concerns. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own priorities and pace, with the counsellor offering a listening, non-judgemental presence.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle will work collaboratively to identify which methods suit each person's goals and preferences. Sessions can draw more on bodily awareness one week, and on practical thinking or relationship work another week, depending on what feels most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which makes therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options help people access therapy from different places and schedules while working with registered or accredited professionals and therapists.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English