Michelle Copley
Practical, collaborative counselling for everyday struggles
BACP United Kingdom
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centred Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Michelle
Michelle Copley is a counsellor who uses the Gottman Method alongside other practical approaches. She draws on 12 years of experience to help people deal with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship difficulties, addiction and life changes in everyday terms.
Background and approach
Michelle keeps sessions conversational and collaborative. She listens to what is happening, helps people make sense of their reactions, and works with them to set straightforward goals.
Her style is warm and respectful so people feel heard from the first session. She offers a range of approaches and picks what fits each person.
That can include client-centred work that follows the client’s pace, cognitive behavioural techniques that look at thoughts and behaviours, and emotion-focused ideas that emphasise feelings and connection. Michelle also draws on dialectical skills to teach emotional regulation when needed.
Michelle has helped people with trauma and abuse, parenting stress, addiction concerns, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and mood difficulties. She also supports those facing career changes, caregiving strain, chronic health issues and questions around identity and relationships.
Sessions are delivered online by video, phone, chat or messaging. Michelle explains therapies plainly and offers tools people can use between sessions.
Her aim is to make the counselling journey as easy to begin as possible and to help people move forward with practical steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online counselling options
Michelle commonly works with the Gottman Method, client-centred therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy in online sessions. The Gottman Method focuses on communication patterns and practical exercises to improve how people relate and handle conflict. Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of the work, following their pace and priorities so they feel understood. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michelle discusses goals and preferences with each person and then suggests one or a mix of methods. She aims to make that decision together so the plan fits what the client needs and wants to achieve.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat allows shorter check-ins during a busy day, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time and make it easier to fit counselling into a working week.
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Experience
12+ years
Registered with
BACP
Languages
English