Michelle is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Meditation teacher. She teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Meditation in clinical and community settings and both in-person and online. She is the producer and podcast host of the Nature of Meditation monthly podcast and is actively involved in the meditation community as a practitioner, mentor and teacher. Nature of Meditation is a free monthly podcast that explores the nature of silent meditation practice and can be followed on Insight Timer, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify and YouTube. 

Michelle has a long career in the mental health field working as a research psychologist, counsellor and life coach, and is currently in clinical practice as a Gestalt counsellor at MIND, the largest mental health charity in England. She holds a MSc Psychology, MA Psychoanalysis, Diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychology, Diploma in Counselling, Certificate in Life Coaching, Diploma in Homeobotanical Therapy, Diploma in Massage Therapy and numerous other counselling and holistic healthcare certificates, specialising in working with specific client groups and with specific therapeutic modalities. You can read about her clinical practice on her The Therapy Garden website. She is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS); British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP); and British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches (BAMBA) and follows BAMBA and The Network for Mindfulness Teachers Guidelines for Good Practice.