Michaela Duffy

Michaela Duffy is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She works with adults who feel stuck or unsure about what comes next in work or life. Her focus includes stress, anxiety, relationships, family concerns, self-esteem, depression, parenting, career questions, coping with life changes and ADHD. She also helps with life purpose concerns.

Michaela’s approach places the client’s perspective at the centre of sessions. She treats people as the expert in their own story and looks for strengths to build on. Conversations are practical and grounded, aimed at making small, manageable changes and clearer decisions.

She draws on Client-Centred Therapy to listen and reflect, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, and Psychodynamic Therapy to consider how past patterns influence current choices. Sessions can include talking, noticing patterns, and trying new ways of responding to stressful situations.

Michaela has helped people work through issues such as abandonment, attachment struggles, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, control issues, separation and divorce, guilt and shame, and loneliness. She also supports those dealing with panic attacks, mood difficulties and impulsivity. Her aim is to help people clarify what matters to them and to take practical steps forward.

Sessions operate via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and costs vary by location. To begin, prospective clients are asked to use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How her approaches work in online sessions

Michaela uses Client-Centred Therapy to listen and reflect on what matters most to the client. This approach focuses on the person’s own perspective and strengths and is useful when someone feels uncertain about next steps.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small changes that can reduce anxiety, improve mood and support clearer decision making.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michaela will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Together the client and counsellor decide which methods to try and adjust them as needed during the course of sessions.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments around work and family commitments, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt techniques for video or phone meetings, for example using screen-sharing to review patterns or brief exercises that suit a commute or a lunch break.