Michaela Stansfield
Counsellor
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In person
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Online
£60 per session
How I can help
I work with women at all life stages who may be struggling with life transitions, feeling stressed, burnt out or like they’ve lost themselves. I have experience working within a domestic abuse charity, a low cost counselling service as well as private practice. In addition to my core training as an Integrative Counsellor, I have undertaken additional specialist training and experience working with perinatal issues, matrescence (the process of becoming a mother) and the often conflicting feelings that come with this, pregnancy and baby loss, bereavement and trauma.
Areas of expertise
- Abortion
- Abuse
- ADHD
- Adoption counselling for adults
- Affairs and betrayals
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Attachment
- Attachment disorder
- Autism
- Baby loss
- Behaviour problems
- Bereavement
- Birth Trauma
- Blended family
- Boarding school syndrome
- Bullying
- Burnout
- Cancer
- Career
- Carer Support
- Child Related Issues
- Childless not by choice
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
- Chronic illness
- Chronic pain
- Climate and eco-anxiety
- Codependency
- Cognitive therapy
- Depression
- Difficulties in childhood
- Disabilities
- Discrimination
- Dissociation
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gender
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder
- Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Grief
- Health anxiety
- Hearing Voices
- High sensitivity
- Hoarding
- Indentity Issues
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life Transitions
- Loneliness
- Loss
- Low Self-Confidence
- Low Self-Esteem
- Menopause
- Mental health
- Miscarriage
- Money
- Narcissism
- Neurodiversity
- Non-monogamy
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Older people's counselling
- Panic Attacks
- Panic Disorder
- Passive-Aggressive Behaviour
- Perfectionism
- Perinatal Anxiety
- Phobias
- Physical Abuse
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and Birth
- Racism
- Redundancy
- Relational therapy
- Relationship Issues
- Relationship problems
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-Harm
- Separation and Divorce
- Separation anxiety
- Sex Problems
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual assault
- Sexuality
- Shame
- Sleep Disorders
- Social anxiety
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Trauma
- Women's Issues
- Work-Related Stress
Languages spoken
- English
Works with
- Individuals
- Young Adults 18-25
Fees
£60 per session
Availability
| Tuesday | 9:30 am – 6:30 pm |
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| Wednesday | 9:30 am – 6:30 pm |
| Thursday | 9:30 am – 6:30 pm |
Training, qualifications & experience
Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling
Member organisations
- BACP
About me
Hello, I’m Michaela (Minnie) a.k.a. The Women’s Therapist.
Feeling lost, burnt out, or like you’ve fallen behind? You’re not alone.
If you’re in your 30s, 40s or 50s and wondering “How did I end up here?” — you’re in the right place.
Do you feel unheard, overwhelmed, a loss of self or confidence, stuck in unhelpful coping mechanisms or patterns?
Do you feel like your worth is tied to pleasing others, or how useful or ‘perfect’ you can be?
Do you feel like your past is impacting your present?
Is your inner critic running the show?
Maybe from the outside your life looks “fine”… but inside, you feel exhausted, disconnected, on auto-pilot and unsure of who you are anymore. You might feel behind where you thought you’d be, stuck in patterns you can’t seem to shift, or carrying the weight of everyone else’s needs while yours go unmet.
I work with women who are tired of holding it all together, of living in survival mode.
Therapy with me is warm, relaxed, and gently challenging. Together, we create a space where you don’t have to perform, fix, or push through. A space where you can explore your thoughts, feelings and options at your own pace, gain better understanding of yourself, new perspectives, develop strategies to better cope or work towards goals, and be able to make informed decisions that are more in line with your authentic self!
I am not a therapist who is just going to sit there and nod. I will support you in finding the answers that are within you, even if these are hard to hear right now.
I won’t sit in silence or leave you feeling alone with it all — but I also won’t rush you or try to “fix” you. We go at your pace, making sense of what’s going on beneath the surface, so real change becomes possible.
This is a space where you can:
• Speak openly without judgement
• Understand yourself more deeply
• Reconnect with who you are (not just who you’ve had to be!)
So that you can start making choices that actually feel right for you.
I’m an integrative counsellor which means I can draw from many different theories and modalities to best suit you, including humanistic person-centred therapy, psychodynamic attachment theory, transactional analysis (TA) and inner child therapy, cognitive and behavioural acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), along with neuroscience and nervous system regulation.
• I work remotely ONLINE throughout the UK.
• I offer in-person, walk and talk sessions in NORTH OXFORDSHIRE.
You don’t have to keep doing this on your own.
Get in touch with Michaela Stansfield
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