Michele Kavanagh, BACP

Michele Kavanagh is a BACP counsellor who offers a warm, non-judgemental space for people to talk through what’s worrying them. She aims to listen carefully and help clients feel genuinely heard. Michele encourages small steps and acknowledges how hard it can be to begin therapy.

She uses an integrative stance that draws on several approaches to suit each person. That means sessions can include looking at past patterns that shape current feelings and trying straightforward strategies to ease anxiety or low mood. Michele emphasises empathy and acceptance while helping people notice thoughts and behaviours that cause extra stress.

Michele has four years of practice experience supporting people with stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship concerns and anger. She also works with grief, trauma and issues that affect sleep and motivation. Additional focuses include caregiving strain, communication difficulties, divorce and separation, and questions about life purpose and self-love.

In sessions she aims to create clarity around difficult feelings and to build simple, practical steps forward. Conversations can cover how past experiences influence present relationships and how changing small habits can ease day-to-day pressure. Michele invites people to reflect on values, set personal priorities and practise new ways of coping.

She works within an ethical framework and listens without judgement. To begin, she encourages taking one small step at a time and acknowledges the courage it takes to ask for support.

How Michele's approaches translate to online work

Michele uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques that can work well in remote sessions. Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of relating and helps with intimacy concerns and communication problems. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical steps to reduce anxiety, low mood and sleep issues.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele will discuss what feels most useful and tailor the approach to the person's goals and preferences. She listens to how a problem shows up day to day and suggests methods that fit the client's pace and priorities.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that suits. It can also let people join from a familiar setting and focus on practical work such as behaviour experiments or thought-record tasks between sessions.