Michelle Kalam

Michelle Kalam is a BACP counsellor with four years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people in distress talk through their feelings and find clearer ways forward. Michelle aims to create a calm, non-judgemental place where clients can be honest and make practical changes.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She listens to what matters most and helps people work out manageable steps. Sessions often focus on coping skills, emotional regulation, and clearer communication. Michelle supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes.

She also works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, relationship and parenting challenges, body image and eating issues, and caregiver stress. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, guilt and shame, and hospice and end-of-life counselling. Michelle offers help with career worries, anger, and the emotional fallout of separation or domestic violence.

Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people understand patterns and try new ways of responding. She encourages practical exercises between sessions and clear goal-setting during therapy. The focus is on steady, achievable progress rather than quick fixes.

Sessions are conducted in English and Michelle accepts international clients. Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

Therapeutic approaches and online counselling options

Michelle works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people understand patterns and try new ways of coping. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce anxiety and low mood. This helps people build more balanced ways of thinking and responding to stress.

Another approach emphasises practical skills for managing emotions and improving daily functioning. It includes breathing and grounding strategies, clearer communication practice, and small behavioural experiments to address avoidance and increase confidence. These techniques can be useful for grief, trauma recovery, and coping with big life changes.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore your goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit your needs. This is done together, and plans are reviewed as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, please confirm which session formats are offered before booking because the biography does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel, or allow shorter check-ins when time is limited. It can also suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who need a quieter setting that fits around daily life.