Michele Junges-Stainthorpe , BACP

Michele Junges-Stainthorpe is a UK-based counsellor and therapist with more than two decades of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, children, young people and whole families. She supports clients across a broad spectrum of concerns - from anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder to trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, as well as neurodiversity-related needs such as autism and ADHD. Michele also addresses parenting and blended family challenges, anger, sleep difficulties, self-esteem struggles, career matters and substance-related issues, among other areas.

Michele adapts her practice to each person she meets, drawing on an array of therapeutic methods to help clients explore underlying patterns and process unresolved material rather than only focusing on surface symptoms. Her toolkit includes approaches such as cognitive-behavioural techniques, DBT-informed strategies, person-centred work, clinical hypnotherapy and trauma-focused methods, used flexibly to fit the needs of adults, young people and children.

She has worked in education and counselling roles including as a teacher and as a school counsellor in an international school, and has experience in private practice, voluntary organisations and corporate settings. Michele holds a BA in Counselling from Glasgow Caledonian University, a Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (BTEC 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), the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists. Michele is fluent in English and French and can also work with people who have some familiarity with Russian or German.