Counselling for Women and Gender Diverse People

~ Online & Outdoor Therapy in Huddersfield & Surrounding Areas ~

If you're feeling lost, overwhelmed or stuck, I offer a space where you can feel supported, valued and seen. 

Hi, I’m Michelle (she/her).

You may need support in managing intense emotions related to a specific event or relationship, or you might be looking to explore the impact of early childhood experiences.

I help people who:

  • Feel far away from the person they once were, or who they know they have the potential to be

  • Have difficulty making sense of intense emotions or feel detached and disengaged with life

  • Struggle to feel heard or understood by the people closest to you

You’re not too late.

Good therapy can feel like a weight lifted. Suddenly, someone else is holding it all with you.

Setting new boundaries and taking risks feels a bit easier when you know your counsellor is right at your side.

You then surprise yourself with new leaps, and begin to grieve for how hard it’s been.

You become able to

  • Reframe your situation

  • Understand your feelings and relationships more deeply

  • Accept those parts of yourself which have been cast off

You become capable of witnessing your own suffering with tenderness.

Feeling more present and loving toward yourself means you slowly begin to have a lot more to give to the world and the people you love — without feeling drained or resentful.

I support people in loving and accepting themselves more fully, and in experiencing greater joy, confidence, and presence in their day-to-day lives.

My story

The work I do is guided by my own lived experiences as someone who experienced much of the mental health care I sought to be dehumanising and pathologising, and yearned to find another way.

The approaches I found—person-centred, embodied/somatic, trauma-centred, intersectional feminism, and anti-oppressive practice—are the ones I live and breathe today, sharing with others non-pathologising and humanising care that centers the complexity of your full experiences.

My background in creative arts therapy and community work

Before moving to the UK, I worked as a dance/movement psychotherapist in New York City for several years. As a group therapist in inpatient psychiatry and addiction services, I developed a deep understanding and sensitivity to the needs of people with severe depression, trauma, dissociation, dementia, complex medical histories, and to people with what is typically called “psychosis”.

I also held groups and individual sessions for neurodivergent children and those who were experiencing trauma and attachment difficulties at a therapeutic preschool. These community settings provided me with a rich foundation to understand the intersectionality of people experiencing multiple forms of marginalisation.

Approaches in Counselling

  • Somatic

  • Relational

  • Person-Centered

  • Intersectional Feminism

  • Trauma-Informed

  • Anti-Oppressive

  • Sex-Positive

  • Fat-Positive

LGBTQIA+ GSRD and neurodiversity affirmative