About Michelle
Michelle Borlesi is a counsellor with five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and motivation struggles. Michelle believes clients are experts in their own stories and draws on their strengths to guide practical change.
Her approach blends body-aware Somatic methods with talking therapies. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centred and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) ideas.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on noticing bodily responses, learning small skills and building everyday routines that make life easier. Michelle aims to create a calm, steady space where people can try things out and learn what helps. She offers clear, down-to-earth guidance rather than technical jargon.
Work in sessions can include breathing and grounding, practical skill practice, values clarification and gentle reflection. She has particular experience supporting people through trauma, addiction, relationship and intimacy difficulties, parenting stresses, career changes and burnout. Additional areas she attends to include attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, anger, and forgiveness work.
Michelle also supports people coping with ADHD, bipolar mood challenges and first responder strains. Michelle is a BACP member, which reflects her professional registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works in English and accepts international clients.
To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Somatic-informed work pays attention to sensations in the body alongside thoughts and feelings. Online sessions can include simple body awareness practices, grounding exercises and movement prompts that help people notice tension and regulation patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and pragmatic actions; online sessions often use exercises to clarify what matters and small experiments to test new ways of living.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. That might mean combining somatic noticing with CBT-style skill practice, or bringing DBT strategies into moments of distress. The choice is guided by what the person wants to achieve, not by a single fixed method.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use audio-only or video in ways that suit their comfort, and supports carrying learning directly into everyday life for practice between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English