Your story matters.
You remember when you had the energy to juggle it all—when success didn’t come at the cost of your well-being.
When you weren’t running on empty, pushing past exhaustion, or measuring your worth by constant achievement.
But those days feel like a lifetime ago now.
Wouldn’t it be a relief to have the right support to finally exhale, slow down, and feel like yourself again?
You’ve come to the right place.
I’m Michelle (she/her), and I support high-achieving women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community like you who already know exercises and techniques that could help, but need the right support to get there.
I help women find steadiness, self-trust, and genuine self-acceptance by equipping them with tools to take healthy risks that prevent burnout and refuel their tanks efficiently.
Too often, therapy is offered as a quick symptom fix, despite everything we know about how people heal. Real change happens only at the pace your body and mind can safely integrate new experiences.
I work beyond symptom management, getting to the root causes of your distress.
Your life is unique, and I meet you right where you are, gently, consistently, and honestly.
Through our work together, you’ll build the skills and confidence you need to thrive in your goals and relationships, while strengthening your sense of self.
We do this in three main ways.
Somatic Work
You’ll learn tools that support self-awareness, self-trust, and self-regulation by tuning into your body’s signals. This helps deepen your ability to feel grounded and safe in your own experience. You’ll gradually build the capacity to calm yourself more quickly, energise yourself when needed, and rest when your body needs it.
Relational Work
By having a new kind of experience within our therapeutic relationship, you begin to form a new internal blueprint—one rooted in safety, trust, and authenticity. Your brain and body start to rewire old patterns, allowing you to relate to others and yourself with greater compassion, clarity, and resilience. This relational healing becomes a foundation for lasting change.
Integration
You’ll have a safe, steady place to return to— after being out in the wild, trying out new ways of being with yourself and others. Within the warmth of a trusting relationship, we can explore what these new experiences are bringing up for you.
You’ll have room to make a mess and to build your self-compassion along the way. Because work in therapy isn’t about getting it perfect—it’s about gentle repetition, with support, until change begins to settle in.
I’m dedicated to helping people recover from perfectionism, reduce anxiety and process trauma, while maintaining a firm belief in people’s capacity for resilience and growth.
My training in embodied psychotherapies, somatic therapies, and applications of polyvagal theory for complex trauma means I have the expertise you need and deserve when healing from perfectionism, burnout, or trauma.
Having worked for over 10 years with adults with severe depression, anxiety, dissociation, psychosis, addiction and neurodivergence, I bring to you the breadth and depth of understanding a wide range of human experience and responses to therapy.
But at the end of the day, you want to know you’re working with someone who gets what it means to recover from the effects of high-achieving.
I understand this because I have undergone a great deal of transformation in my relationship to these exact experiences. So, when we work together, you won’t just get a trained therapist, you’ll get someone who truly understands what you’re going through.
Credentials
I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling from the University of Leeds and a Master of Science with Distinction in Dance and Movement in Creative Arts Therapy from Pratt Institute in New York City.
Professional Memberships:
British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP
National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society - NCPS
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Upcoming Presentations
Radical Resonance: Queer Embodiment, Co-regulation and Femifesto Writing at Lesbian Lives Conference 2025, NYC
Selection of Recent Training
Somatic Therapies for Complex Trauma (CCTP-II) — Arielle Schwartz, Abi Blakeslee and Janina Fisher
Janina Fisher's Trauma Treatment Certification Training (CCTP-I)
Diploma in Diversity, Cultural Competence, Race, and Anti-Discrimination Embedded into Therapeutic Practice — The AntiDiscrimination Focus #TADF
Women's Mental Health Specialist Certificate, PESI—eg. Neurodiversity; Body Image/Eating Issues Across Race and Culture; Hormonal Impacts; Reproductive Narratives; Infertility; Childfree by Choice; Emotional Labour & Domestic Load
Black Feminism and Womanism: Therapeutic Perspectives — Claudia Coussins, Feminist Therapy Network
Birthing from a Trans Perspective — Jacob Stokoe, Make Birth Better
Reproductive Trauma: Essential Tools for Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, Birth Trauma, and Perinatal Mental Health Disorders, PESI
Therapy Style
Warm, attuned, engaged, direct, collaborative, and relatable.
Favourite quote
“The fact that a person has lost her way, is injured, wandering, or wondering, is an important part of her story. Injury, in a symbolic sense, always marks the place where the ‘treasure’ will be found.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Top personal growth writers:
Audre Lorde
bell hooks
Pema Chodron
Clarissa Pinkoka Estes
Ready to explore working together?
Approaches in Counselling
Somatic
Relational
Person-Centered
Intersectional Feminism
Trauma-Informed
Anti-Oppressive
Sex-Positive
Fat-Positive
