About Michelle
Michelle Sewell is a BACP counsellor who blends somatic awareness with talking therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship worries. She offers straightforward support for common struggles like low self-esteem, anger and grief. Sessions focus on what a person needs now and how their body and emotions show up in daily life.
Michelle draws on several approaches and adapts them to each person. This can mean noticing physical tension and grounding the body, working through emotional patterns, or using practical steps to shift thinking and behaviour.
Background and approach
She keeps language simple and aims to create space where people can reflect without feeling judged. Her experience covers a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, compassion fatigue and workplace difficulties. Michelle also addresses intimacy-related issues, attachment matters and life transitions such as separation or midlife change.
She is used to helping people who face panic attacks, pregnancy and childbirth related stress, and challenges around body image. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what feels most manageable. Work is collaborative - the person and Michelle set goals together and check progress along the way.
Michelle trained to the standards of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. She works from the United Kingdom and holds four years of practice experience supporting clients with everyday and complex pressures.
How somatic and talking approaches work online
Somatic work notices how the body holds feelings and tension. Online sessions can include simple grounding and breathing tasks to help people become more aware of physical responses to stress or anxiety. This can be useful for panic symptoms, chronic tension and emotions that feel stuck.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and creating acceptance. It gives people a calm space to make sense of their thoughts and feelings without judgement, which often helps when handling life changes or relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and introduces practical steps to change unhelpful patterns; this is helpful for anxiety, panic and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try things out and check what helps most based on the person's goals and preferences. Therapy is a collaborative process that adapts over time.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging offer flexibility for busy lives and for those who prefer remote contact. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work and everyday commitments while still allowing for meaningful, consistent support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English