Michelle Strange

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Individual and Couples Therapy with Michelle Strange

I am a psychotherapeutic counsellor, couples therapist and clinical supervisor, and have worked in Barnsbury Therapy Rooms since 2012. I’m warm, thoughtful, calm and curious, most importantly offering you space and safety to talk.

I work with individual clients and couples, and will welcome you whatever your gender identification, ethnicity, sexuality, faith or cultural background. You are also welcome if you feel unsure about whether your challenges are significant enough to go to therapy at all, or are criticising yourself for not having resolved things on your own.

My approach to therapeutic work is humanistic, relational and mindfulness-based. I do not use a couch, make diagnoses (or make assumptions if you already have one), and I won’t judge you or tell you what to do.

If we continue with regular sessions after an initial meeting, we will listen to what feels painful or overwhelming, and attend to it. We will explore how you meet difficulties in your life and in relationships, look at whether other responses or ways of communicating might feel more helpful. Sometimes we will look at past events, patterns and relationships to understand the present. As our work continues, you may begin to draw upon your own resources, as an individual or as a couple, with wider and different dialogues becoming available. A sense of well-being can become more readily accessible for you, alone or in relationships.

Depending on what has brought you, we may agree to work for a shorter or longer initial period. Where I think it helpful, I may offer to incorporate mindfulness or other experiential practices into our work, but I will not insist. All therapeutic work arises out of a collaborative and equal relationship between myself and clients. 

For individual clients experiencing acute work-place difficulties, I can work short-term over a 12 week block of sessions – please click on the link under the home page under Difficulties at Work my personal website www.michellestrange.co.uk.

I have had 35 years of experience of working with clients who are experiencing difficulty and distress in their lives. I have worked with clients in bereavement agencies, in University Counselling services and in a longer-term NHS psychotherapy service. I have supervised the work of counsellors at an agency, and continue to supervise in private practice. I have taught mindfulness meditation classes to the general public, and training workshops for other counsellors.

I lived in several places and countries, before settling in North London. I am a mother. Before embarking upon therapy work I had a long career as a barrister in private practice, specialising in criminal defence, human rights and mental health law. My decision to re-train was inspired by my own very positive experience of being a client in long-term therapy, and my work is underpinned and supported by my own meditation practice.

For further information about how I work, and how counselling may help you, please visit my website www.michellestrange.co.uk. 

Short-term counselling for difficulties related to work

Work occupies a huge space in many people’s lives, shaping identity, representing success or status in the world, enabling or constricting life and relationships. Things don’t always go well, particularly in this stretched economic climate, and things can change suddenly. If you are struggling with a work-related difficulty, or if you are unexpectedly unable to work at all, you may need some focused support with this.

For individual clients experiencing acute work-place difficulties, I offer short-term counselling over a 12 week block of sessions – details on my personal website  https://www.michellestrange.co.uk/work.html

Supervision with Michelle Strange

I supervise therapists individually and in groups. If you are a therapist looking for clinical supervisor, please look at the supervision page on my website.

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Areas I work with:

• Anxiety and panic
• Adoption
• Ageing and fear of death
• Bereavement and grief
• Couples Therapy
• Depression
• Family Issues
• Gender and Sexual Diversity
• living with disability, long-term health problems, or terminal illness
• Parenting/ step parenting
• People who have experience of the secondary mental health system, and mental health diagnoses
• Relationship Issues
• Self-Esteem
• Sexual and/or Physical Abuse in Childhood
• Sexuality and Sexual issues
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work-related stress, burnout and work-life balance

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Qualifications, Training and Experience:

I am a psychotherapeutic counsellor, couples therapist, clinical supervisor and adoption support counsellor. I’m an accredited member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and the NCPS (National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society) and a member of the Institute for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. My work is underpinned by personal meditation practice, and mindfulness-based supervision.

My profile on the NCPS can be seen here – Michelle Strange

My Profile on the BACP can be seen here – Michelle Strange

Since seeing my first therapy clients in 2010 I have actively continued my professional development, recently increasing my focus on mindfulness, embodied and trauma-sensitive approaches. My qualifications include

• Level 4 Professional Diploma in Integrative Counselling, Mary Ward Centre
• Integrative Counselling and Contemporary Psychotherapy, (Year 3) Minster Centre
• L1 Teacher Training, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMPR), Bangor University
• Mindfulness One-to-one, CMPR Bangor University
• Diploma in Relational Mindfulness, Karuna Institute
• Global Online Professional Training Program in Mind-Body Medicine, Center for Mind-Body Medicine
• Certificate in Working with Couples and other Relationships, Grove Training
• Level 6 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision, CPCAB
• Certificate Program in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, Institute for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy/Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, US
• Certificate in Adoption Support Counselling, Albany Centre/Barnados
• Gestalt in Action – Chair work, Gestalt Centre

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Contact:

I am happy to be contacted by email or telephone, to answer any questions you might have, and set up an initial meeting.

07932 488 548
michellestrangecounselling@gmail.com
www.michellestrange.co.uk

Rates:

Please email me to ask about fees, or see the Contact and Fees section of my personal website  for details.

I keep some reduced fee spaces for people from lower household incomes.

My hours of client work are between 7am-5pm, Mondays-Thursday.

Sessions:

Psychotherapy sessions at Barnsbury Therapy Space:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Directions to Barnsbury Therapy Space