Michelle Corrigan, BACP

Michelle Corrigan is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief and life changes. She works from a person-centred stance and aims to create a warm, interactive space where people can talk through what matters to them. Michelle is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, BACP, and has six years of practice experience in the United Kingdom.

She meets clients where they are and pays attention to both external difficulties and inner experience. Conversations can be verbal and sometimes involve energetic expression. Together they identify what is blocking growth and practical steps to move forward.

Michelle draws on person-centred and humanistic roots and uses an integrative approach. She also brings ideas from attachment work, cognitive behavioural thinking, and emotionally-focused methods. This mix is used to tailor how sessions proceed rather than following a single formula.

The counsellor also attends to how stress shows up in the body, and will explore emotional and physical reactions alongside thoughts. Sessions aim to help people notice patterns and try small changes that can make daily life easier.

Her additional focus areas include caregiver stress, chronic illness and ageing and geriatric issues, as well as relationship and attachment concerns. Michelle works with a range of issues from addictions and eating concerns to compassion fatigue and career stress.

If someone is ready to make changes, she offers support to hold space and empower them to take next steps. Prospective clients are encouraged to confirm the current session options and scheduling details before booking.

How Michelle’s approaches translate to online work

Michelle uses Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centred practice and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to shape sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people understand connection and trust. Client-centred practice focuses on the person’s experience in the moment and aims to create an open, non-judgemental space. Cognitive behavioural work helps identify unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and tests practical changes to see if they make a difference.

Finding the right combination of these approaches is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods best suit the client’s needs, goals and preferences, and will adjust as progress is made.

Please confirm the current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by removing travel time or allowing shorter check-ins around work breaks. It can also allow sessions to continue when circumstances change, while the therapist and the person they are working with decide together what style and pacing suit them best.