Counsellor profile
Michelle Yang, ACA
ACA counsellor - Stress and relationships
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- Stress and anxiety
- Parenting support
- CBT and ACT approaches
About Michelle
Michelle Yang is an ACA counsellor in Australia with nine years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and navigate career difficulties. She also lists family and parenting among her focus areas and supports people facing grief, trauma, sleeping problems and self-esteem concerns.
Her approach is direct and practical. Sessions often focus on clearer communication, building coping skills and looking at patterns that get in the way of daily life. She uses methods from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients make small, manageable changes.
Michelle also draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas when relationships and trust are the main concern. That means paying attention to how people relate to others and making space for a person’s own goals and values. She includes strategies from dialectical behaviour therapy when emotion regulation and crisis skills are needed.
People come to her with parenting stress, intimacy-related worries, anger and issues tied to adoption, blended families or caregiving stress. Sessions aim to clarify problems, practise concrete skills and set realistic next steps for home life. Communication and commitment issues are common themes.
Michelle speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese. She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling an initial session, which helps identify priorities and practical next steps.
How sessions work
Approaches used in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, stress and life changes because it encourages committed steps even when feelings are difficult.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It teaches practical strategies to challenge unhelpful thinking and change routines that maintain problems like low mood, sleep troubles or anxiety.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationship patterns affect trust and emotional connection. It can be helpful when intimacy, communication or commitment issues are the focus.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that suit their goals, personal preferences and daily life. That selection can change as priorities shift over time.
Confirm the current session formats before booking, as these were not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins, and reduce travel time. If quieter surroundings, less screen time or a brief phone check-in would help, discuss these practical options when arranging sessions.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
9+ years
Listed in
Australia
Languages
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she work with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and career difficulties, parenting strain, grief, trauma and sleep problems.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and goal-focused, using clearer communication and skill-building to address daily problems.
How much experience does she have?
She has nine years of professional work experience in Australia.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is credentialed with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and works from Australia.
Can I have sessions in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule the first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.