Michele Attias, BACP

Michele Attias helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or major life changes. She is a BACP counsellor with twenty years' experience and offers sessions in English and Spanish. Michele focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more able to cope.

She combines straightforward conversation with goal-focused tools. Clients set priorities and try small experiments between sessions to build confidence and reduce overthinking. Michele also supports people dealing with sleep and eating difficulties, addiction, compassion fatigue and work-related strain.

Her way of working is integrative and client-centred, which means she adapts methods to the person in front of her. Michele draws from approaches such as cognitive behavioural work, emotionally-focused techniques and acceptance and commitment ideas to meet different needs. Sessions can be short-term or longer-term depending on what the person wants to achieve.

Michele takes a holistic view and pays attention to physical, emotional and social factors that affect wellbeing. She helps people improve decision-making, manage energy and restore focus so daily tasks feel easier. Practical coping strategies are combined with space to process difficult emotions.

People who prefer a warm, attentive style and clear, actionable plans often find her helpful. Michele welcomes international clients and offers appointments by video call, phone, live chat or messaging. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and books a session through the Start Therapy button.

How Michele’s approaches work in online therapy

Michele draws on cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build more useful habits. CBT focuses on identifying and testing thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going, which can help with anxiety, depression and sleep or eating issues. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and choose actions that match their values, often useful for stress, rumination and life changes.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele will talk with the client about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as work progresses to suit the person’s needs.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging works for short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel and to continue working with a therapist from different locations.