Michelle Courtney
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About me
I work with you from an integrative therapeutic approach, to deliver scientific evidence-based person-centred therapy and neuropsychological trauma-informed techniques. I invite you to experience self-exploration and learn how to regulate your nervous system with a toolbox of techniques you can use in your daily life. It is with these simple, yet profound techniques that you learn to feel safe to connect to your 'real self' and nourish your relationships with others and your world.
Why do I work as an integrative therapist?
Because no one therapy fits all and you are unique.
Feel safe in your relationship with yourself
I help clients suffering from anxiety, depression, acute pain/health issues and trauma. We can work together to bring you relief and solutions to move toward the life you want.
Feel safe in social relationships and your external world
With our busy pace of life and work-related commitments, I help you to integrate old and new challenges with insight into self, relationships and the external environment. In turn, you will learn to restore your path of resilience to make clear choices moving forward emotionally resourced.
I have over thirty years of experience working in diverse settings, with senior management, employees and young persons, in corporate, educational, and therapeutic settings, in the UK and internationally (Isle of Wight, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, UAE, South Africa)
“Trauma can be both when bad things happen to people that shouldn’t happen. But also when good things that should happen, don’t happen”
— S. PORGES (POLYVAGAL THEORY)
How are you feeling in your body and your mind right now? Are you constantly sensing threats and feeling anxious? And/or are you feeling depressed/protective/shut down in relationships and your place in the world? Difficulties in your childhood, and micro traumas in adulthood impacting on your ability to self-regulate and connect in relationships.
If your answer is yes, then we can work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have had the privilege of helping hundreds of adults and Adolescents during my 30 year career. This enables me to offer you both a depth and breadth of therapeutic and coaching experience to ensure that you receive a personalised approach to enable us to work together effectively.
My Qualifications
- PG Dip. Psychology and Neuroscience for Mental Health Kings College, London
- Level 4 Dip. Therapeutic Counselling
- M.Sc. Social Science Research Methods
- MBA (with Distinction)
- PGCE Social Sciences
- BA (Hons) Public Administration
Memberships
- BACP Registered Member
- Mindful Society Global Institute
- Applied Neuroscience Association (ANA)
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I offer a non pathologising integrative therapeutic service, whereby we work together to take a step by step approach to formulating your therapeutic path to healing. My approach is informed by polyvagal theory to deliver scientific evidence-based Mindfulness therapies and neuropsychological trauma-informed techniques. I invite you to experience self-exploration and learn how to regulate your nervous system with a toolbox of techniques you can use in your daily life. It is with these simple, yet profound techniques that you learn to feel safe to connect to your 'real self', and nourish your relationships with others and your world.
Therapies offered
Fees
£100.00 per session
Additional information
I offer face-to-face sessions in my Wilmslow practice, in which I have created a confidential and comfortable space for you to feel safe and communicate openly in our therapeutic relationship.
Furthermore, if you prefer online sessions, I am fully qualified and competent at delivering online and telephone Therapy (OTT). I provide additional resources and support to ensure you feel safe to fully benefit from our therapeutic relationship.
The fee covers 90 minute initial session and 60 minute thereafter.
Further information
My first session
No one therapy fits all and so I am passionate that you receive accessible and effective therapy that is adapted to your unique self and circumstances. Therefore, the strategies and exercises provided will be tailored to help you benefit from your therapeutic path one step at a time.
The challenges you face may require a brief solution-focused approach or a more integrative therapeutic safe path. I provide a free 20-minute online chat to discuss your needs further and guide your decision as to the best way forward.
When we have our first appointment, either face-to-face or online, this is an opportunity to talk about what you require and your expectations. I can also answer any questions you have and outline the therapy path you are about to embark upon. For example;
- Brief solution-focused Therapy for Adults
- Integrative Psychotherapy for Adults
- Integrative Psychotherapy for Young
Types of therapy
Behavioural, Brief therapy, Cognitive, Creative therapy, Eclectic, Existential, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Person centred, Phenomenological, Relational, Solution focused brief therapy, Transpersonal
How I deliver therapy
Email therapy, Home visits, Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Outdoor therapy, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone therapy, Text therapy, Time-limited
