Michele Junges-Stainthorpe, BACP

Michele Junges-Stainthorpe is a counsellor and therapist with more than two decades of experience supporting adults, young people, children, couples, and families through a wide range of life challenges. She has worked with neurodiversity and autism, ADHD, depression and low mood, anxiety and stress, bereavement and grief, trauma and self-harm, eating and body image concerns, obsessive compulsive disorder, anger, identity and relationship questions, substance and alcohol issues, chronic illness, and many other presenting difficulties. Her practice also attends to parenting, attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family and foster care matters, and the complex effects of domestic violence and separation.

Michele adapts her approach to each person she meets, drawing on a broad toolkit of therapeutic methods to match the needs and preferences of the individual. She integrates client-centred work with cognitive-behavioural techniques, DBT-informed strategies, psychodynamic perspectives, clinical hypnotherapy, trauma-focused methods, narrative and emotion-focused work, play therapy with children, schema and gestalt elements, and solution-focused interventions. Her emphasis is on uncovering and processing underlying patterns and unresolved issues so people can better use their own internal and external resources to cope and move forward.

Her background includes roles as a teacher, a school counsellor in an international school, and positions in private companies, voluntary organisations, and private practice. Michele holds a BA in Counselling from Glasgow Caledonian University, a Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (BTEC Level 5) from South Tyneside College, and a BA (Hons) in French, Russian and Politics from the University of Northumbria. She is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), a professional association for counsellors and psychotherapists, and she is fluent in French while also having some knowledge of Russian and German.