Michelle Jo, BACP
5 years in practice
Michelle Jo is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with a BACP credential and five years of professional experience.
License and registration
- BACP
- 388777 · expires August 2026
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Michelle
Michelle Jo is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with a BACP credential and five years of professional experience. She uses an approachable, practical style and brings mindfulness tools into sessions. She aims to help people who are feeling stuck, anxious, low in confidence, or facing life changes.
Michelle writes plainly and offers calm, steady support for those first steps towards change. Michelle combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas with acceptance-based and attachment-informed approaches.
Background and approach
In practice this means she pays attention to feelings and relationship patterns while helping clients notice what matters to them. Sessions include breathing exercises, body scans and guided meditation when helpful. She also teaches assertive communication skills and simple behavioural techniques to reduce anxiety and build confidence.
Her training includes a degree in Psychology and a level 1 Train To Teach Mindfulness Certificate from the Mindfulness Association. The BACP credential is listed as her professional registration. These experiences contribute to a clear, educational style that focuses on practical learning during therapy.
Michelle often uses psychoeducation to explain why thoughts and reactions happen, and then works with clients to try different ways of responding. Typical concerns she supports include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, parenting strain, addiction-related issues and coping with illness or major life events. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Michelle encourages people to notice small changes and build skills they can use between meetings. She aims to make therapy understandable and relevant to everyday life.
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
Approaches Michelle names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Working with emotions and values online
Michelle combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice core emotions and how these shape relationship patterns and personal reactions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and learning simple steps to act in line with what matters, which can ease anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current ways of relating and helps people create different responses in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then try methods together. Work is collaborative and may mix approaches depending on what helps in practice.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which makes fitting therapy around work, family and travel easier. Video is useful for conversational sessions and teaching techniques, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messages or live chat work well for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. Many people find online work flexible and easier to maintain over time.
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Questions people ask
What problems does she help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship or intimacy-related issues, along with parenting strain, addictions and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and warm, using Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas alongside acceptance and attachment-focused techniques and mindfulness exercises.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and life concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with BACP and practises from the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be held in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English, and she does accept international clients.
Which session formats are offered?
She works remotely by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for?
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