Counsellor profile
Michelle Lindsay, BACP
Counsellor - Family and relationship concerns
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- Client-Centred approach
- Existential therapy ideas
- Parenting and family issues
About Michelle
Michelle Lindsay is a counsellor and a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with four years' experience in the UK. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low mood and depression, and difficulties with self-esteem. Her practice also covers relationship and family concerns, parenting, grief, identity issues including LGBT and gender dysphoria, and challenges such as ADHD and career stress.
She offers a calm, relational approach that draws mainly on Client-Centred (Person-Centred) and Existential ideas. Sessions focus on listening, understanding how a person’s life has brought them to this point, and helping clients identify practical next steps. Michelle describes her style as collaborative and responsive to each person’s preferences.
Clients often bring problems that feel overwhelming or hard to untangle. Michelle aims to help people clarify what matters to them and explore options for change. She may also bring in elements from other approaches when they fit someone’s needs, for example aspects of Gestalt, attachment thinking or cognitive behaviour ideas.
Her work has included private practice and roles in community settings. That range informs how she supports people managing life transitions, caregiver stress, chronic health challenges, or complex family of origin issues. Michelle helps people explore intimacy concerns, abandonment themes, body image, and guilt or shame in straightforward terms.
Practical matters such as how sessions are arranged and costs are handled through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session using the online booking option.
How sessions work
How Michelle’s approaches translate to online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience without directing them. It helps when someone needs someone to reflect back what they’re feeling, clarify values, or work through choices about parenting, relationships or life changes.Existential Therapy looks at meaning, responsibility and how people face life’s limits. It can help when someone feels stuck by loss, emptiness, anxiety about identity, or major life transitions and wants to examine what matters to them now.
Finding the right way of working is part of the early process. Michelle will talk with each person about what they want and try different approaches if needed. That collaborative planning helps shape sessions around goals, preferences and practical needs rather than assuming a single method.
The practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions into a busy family schedule and reducing travel time so check-ins can be shorter or more frequent when needed. The biography does not specify which session formats are used, so confirm the current online options before booking. Many people choose online sessions because they are easier to schedule around work, studying or childcare and because they let therapy be part of everyday life without needing to change locations.
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Experience
4+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low mood and self-esteem, plus relationship and family issues, parenting, grief and identity concerns including LGBT and gender dysphoria.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is relational and collaborative, drawing mainly on Client-Centred and Existential ideas. She listens and helps people decide practical steps that fit their situation.
What experience does she have?
She has four years' experience working in the UK in both private practice and community settings, supporting people with a wide range of life and mental health concerns.
Is she registered with a professional body in the UK?
She is a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients; sessions are offered to people within the United Kingdom.
How are sessions arranged and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. Specific fees are provided during the sign-up and booking process.
How do I start a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session through the booking step.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.