About Michelle
Michelle Yang is an ACA counsellor with nine years of professional experience in Australia. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and those facing relationship or career struggles. Michelle aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person's pace.
Michelle uses a practical, body-aware approach alongside talking therapy. Sessions often include attention to physical sensations and simple grounding practices, as well as talking through thoughts and behaviours that cause distress.
Background and approach
She blends somatic ideas with evidence-based methods to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. Clients can expect a warm, non-judgemental space where their concerns are heard. Michelle works in clear, straightforward language and focuses on small, achievable changes.
She supports people through grief, navigating addictions, coping with life changes, and dealing with sleep or intimacy-related issues. Her work also covers areas such as parenting strain, compassion fatigue, chronic pain and illness, attachment and abandonment concerns, and body image. Michelle draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centred techniques to tailor sessions to each person.
Sessions are available in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. Michelle balances practical strategies with attention to feelings and bodily experience so people can build skills they use outside sessions.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Michelle often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Somatic ideas in sessions. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that match your values; it can help with anxiety, depression and motivation. Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and simple grounding practices to reduce overwhelm and reconnect the mind and body; this can be useful for stress, trauma responses and chronic tension.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then try methods that fit the person's needs. Together they review what works and adjust the approach as therapy progresses to keep it practical and relevant.
Online sessions use video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. These formats let people access support from home or work and fit sessions around family or job commitments. The variety of options also means techniques such as breathing or grounding can be practised between live sessions, and check-ins by chat or message can help maintain momentum.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese